Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes?

Question

I have found that setting \widowpenalty=10000\clubpenalty=10000 in the main document has not prevented widows and clubs from appearing occasionally in footnotes in a long and complex document I am working on.

I eliminated those widows and clubs by adding the same commands to a new command for creating footnotes:

\newcommand\footy[1]
 {\footnotemark{}%
  \footnotetext{\widowpenalty=10000\clubpenalty=10000\relax#1}%
 }

but it seems to me that this is rather wasteful since it calls the two penalty commands over and over again. Is there, instead, a pair of commands that specify widow and club penalties for footnotes, and that only need to be called once?

Answer 1

Define for example \interfootnotelinepenalty=100 or try 10000· Macro \footnote uses the given \interfootnotelinepenalty if a pagebreak is necessary in your footnote.

Answer 2

The package bigfoot provides much better footnote breaking facilities than the default. Loading it alone will often fix bad breaking issues.

By default it also defines:

\newcount\footnotewidowpenalty 
\footnotewidowpenalty=250  
\newcount\footnoteclubpenalty 
\footnoteclubpenalty=250  
\newcount\finalfootnotewidowpenalty 
\finalfootnotewidowpenalty=4000