I'm starting to write my thesis using a custom (and incredibly old) thesis style that has been doing the rounds in my university (UCL). It seems as if it was originally written by a professor of the Computer Science department, but since it is the only one around, it has since been adapted by various people in different departments generating what I imagine is a rather daunting variety of versions in different places.
Anyway, my problem is with the spacing of footnotes.
In brief, the problem is that the spacing of the lines within a footnote is not the same as the spacing between different footnotes, with the result that two footnotes on the same page, at least one of which has more than one line, has an irregular line spread.
Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{ucl_thesis}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\footnote{A short footnote on one line.}
Some more text.
\footnote{A longer footnote so that it spans multiple lines.
A longer footnote so that it spans multiple lines.
A longer footnote so that it spans multiple lines.}
\end{document}
In order to compile it you'll need two files: ucl_thesis.cls
and ucl_a4.sty
.
What I've done
The part in ucl_thesis.cls
that modifies the line spacing is on line 106:
\renewcommand \baselinestretch{1.5}
and according to this answer by @jon, "this is usually not recommended" since "LaTeX provides \linespread
, which is probably better to use". However, changing the line quoted above into
\setlength{\footnotesep}{1.5\baselineskip}%
\linespread{1.5}\selectfont%
as per his answer did not solve the problem: the spacing between footnotes was now too big.
Before I start manually adjusting this until the error was too small for me to see, I thought I'd ask here.
\setlength{\footnotesep}{\baselineskip}
. Otherwise, the.cls
requires looking at.footnotesep
a little too big. If nothing better comes along this will have to do, but it would be nice to find a proper solution. For the record, I have close to zero confidence on that.cls
file: it's from 1996!\setlength{\footnotesep}{0.845\baselineskip}
seems to give the best results...\usepackage{xcolor}\usepackage[grid, gridunit=bp, gridcolor=red!20, subgridcolor=blue!20]{eso-pic}