Poetry in footnote

Question

I need to write a translation to poetry into footnote. I failed to find any good way to markup this:

\footnote{line1\\line2}

By default, footnote's first line have smaller indent that the second one. This doesn't look like a poem.

I also tried the verse environment, but it seems that in latex every environment should begin from new line.

There is some questions on stackexchange, which ask about footnotes markup, but answer is "set indents manually", which is not good way (IMHO).

So, how do I make the indent of the second text line in the footnote the same as the first line indent (plus footmark width, of course).

Answer 1

An expansion of my earlier comment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[hang]{footmisc}
\setlength{\footnotemargin}{1em}% probably need at least 1.5em if >100
                                % footnotes
% default 'hang' values:
% \renewcommand{\hangfootparskip}{0.5\baselineskip}%
% \renewcommand{\hangfootparindent}{0em}

\begin{document}

Text.%
\footnote{\lipsum[1]}

\setcounter{footnote}{9}

Text.%
\footnote{\lipsum[1-2]}

\setcounter{footnote}{99}

Text.%
\footnote{\lipsum[3]}

\end{document}

Answer 2

You could use a verse environment inside a minipage environment in order to suppress the unwanted initial blank lines. The following MWE illustrates this method. Since it appears you may have a lot of these cases, you may want to create a new command called, say \vfootnote, that acts like a normal footnote except that it typesets its contents in a minipage that's not offset very much -- per your stated preferences -- to the right of the footnote number

\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{fnverse}
    {\let\\\@centercr
     \list{}{\itemsep 0pt
     \itemindent   -1.5em%
     \listparindent\itemindent
     \rightmargin  \leftmargin
     \advance\leftmargin-1em}% adjust to taste
     \item\relax}
     {\endlist}
\makeatother
\newcommand{\vfootnote}[1]{%
    \footnote{%
    \begin{minipage}[t]{0.9\textwidth} 
    \begin{fnverse}
    #1 
    \end{fnverse}
    \end{minipage}}}

\begin{document}
\ldots\ the opening lines of Vergil's Aeneid.\vfootnote{%
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris\\
Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit\\
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto\\
vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram;\\
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, \\
inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum,\\
Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.}
More text \ldots
\end{document}

The resulting footnote looks like this (note that I've kept the page marker in the image to provide a sense of the vertical separation between footnote material and the page number):

Answer 3

In article.cls you can find the definition of \@makefntext:

\newcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
    \parindent 1em%
    \noindent
    \hb@xt@1.8em{\hss\@makefnmark}#1}

The following redefinition makes footnotes' lines aligned (basically we use hangindent for this:

\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
    \hangindent=1.8em\hangafter=1\parindent=0em\noindent
    \everypar{\hangindent=1.8em\hangafter=1}% 
    \hb@xt@1.8em{\hss\@makefnmark}#1}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
In the Frost's
poem\footnote{%
Whose woods these are I think I know.\\
His house is in the village though;}
\end{document}