bigfoot: only break footnotes across double-page spread

Question

The bigfoot handles the breaking of footnotes across pages quite well, but personally I don't like it if I have to turn the page to read a complete footnote.

Therefore my question: Is it possible to make bigfoot only break footnotes if the its second part will be on the opposite side of a double-page spread?

Another footnote-related question: There doesn't seem to be widow control when it comes to footnotes. I occasionally have broken footnotes where there are only a few words on the new side. This looks, of course, quite ugly – can this be avoided?

Answer 1

I think bigfoot has (undocumented) \footnotewidowpenalty and \footnoteclubpenalty values.

Answer 2

Taking ienissei's hint I tried to do this with komascripts \ifthispageodd command and encountered something interesting: As my MWE shows this doesn't produce stable results – each time I typeset the MWE the footnotes are broken differently:

\documentclass[twoside]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{bigfoot}
\interfootnotelinepenalty=8000
\newcommand*{\smartfootnote}[1]{\ifthispageodd{\interfootnotelinepenalty=10000}{\interfootnotelinepenalty=8000}\footnote{#1}\interfootnotelinepenalty=9000}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}

\blindtext

\blindtext

\blindtext

\blindtext\smartfootnote{\blindtext}

\blindtext\smartfootnote{\blindtext}

\blindtext

\blindtext\smartfootnote{\blindtext\blindtext} \blindtext

\blindtext\blindtext\blindtext\smartfootnote{\blindtext} \blindtext
\end{document}

After the first run footnote 3 is broken across pages 2 and 3 as it should be, while footnote 4 is unbroken on page 4. After the second run, footnote 4 is broken across pages 3 and 4 which is wrong, after the third run, we're again correct. And so on and so on …

While I understand why this is happening, this is definitely not the last word on this.