footnoterule not moving with footnote

Question

I'm using the book documentclass and the footmisc package.

I made some changes to the original footnote macros, and this causes the following problem when the footnoted word is on the last couple of lines of the page:

A minimal (not)working example:
book.main.tex
mylayout.sty

If line 67. in mylayout.sty is commented out, the footnoterule and the footnote moves to the next page, which is the expected behaviour. It beats me why it leaves the rule on the prev. page otherwise.

Answer 1

The problem comes from this:

\begin{minipage}[t]{\footwidth}\raggedright #1\end{minipage}

Comment out the minipage environment, leaving only \raggedright #1 and you'll see the standard behaviour:

in the page where the \footnote command is invoked, the footnoterule is drawn, and, if the whole footnote text doesn't fit in the page, the text is properly split: some lines will be written in the first page, and the remaining text will continue in the next page; however, since you are enclosing the text in a minipage, and minipages don't admit page breaks, the full footnote text is moved to the next page leaving a footnoterule without text in the first page.