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For a given book, I want to typeset lots of short footnotes on a page. The result is not looking very great.

Here is the basic rendering, using scrbook with standard footnotes:

standard

Using \usepackage[para]{footmisc}:

with footmisc

Using \usepackage[dblfootnote]:

with dblfootnote

What other option could there be to properly typeset these footnotes?

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    I’ve never seen footmisc produce such ugly results; they seem to result from frenchb. Using \StandardFootnotes improves the output considerably.
    – Thérèse
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 6:41
  • You are right! If you add this as an answer, I'll select it.
    – raphink
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 6:51
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    I don’t think it’s much of an answer yet. Someone who understands the package code should figure out how frenchb and footmisc are interacting and whether they can be made to cooperate better without stepping on French typographic conventions. But maybe there’s reason to depart from the conventions here: all those numbers at the foot of the page, from the note numbers and the verse numbers, are hard to read, especially when the note numbers aren’t superscripted; old-style numbers and the perpage option of footmisc may ease the strain somewhat.
    – Thérèse
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 7:01
  • Yes. It does seem like frenchb's implementation is buggy though, with numbers getting far too close to each other.
    – raphink
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 9:55

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Reset to default
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You could try the following:

\usepackage{bigfoot}
\usepackage{perpage}

\DeclareNewFootnote[para]{A}
\MakePerPage{footnoteA}

\expandafter\def\csname @makefnbreak\endcsname{\unskip\linebreak[0]}
\makeatletter
  \let\@makefntext@orig\@makefntext
  \FootnoteSpecific{A}\def\@makefntext#1{%
      \noindent{\hbox{\textbf{\@thefnmark}\nolinebreak\ }}#1~\hss%
  }
\makeatother

This will give you all the footnotes (to be inserted via footnoteA{...}) as one continuous paragraph (first line not indented), bold footnotemarks and fixed spatia between the mark and the preceding and following text, respectively. You can change the size of the whitespace by changing \nolinebreak\ }}#1~ to another horizontal space of your liking.

HTH, Dario

Edit: Added \MakePerPage as per comment.

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  • Thsi is not bad at all! I think it looks a bit nicer with a \quad though.
    – raphink
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 10:06
  • Glad it helps. You should indeed experiment with the size of the whitespace depending on your overall layout and page size.
    – dariok
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 10:08
  • Actually, is there a reason why this won't reset the footnote counter for every page, like it seems to be the default for bigfoot?
    – raphink
    Commented Jun 12, 2015 at 21:37
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    The counter running though is standard behaviour. If you want to have it reset every page, you can use the package perpage: \usepackage{perpage} \MakePerPage{footnoteA} I've updated my answer to include it.
    – dariok
    Commented Jun 14, 2015 at 22:24
  • Thank you. I'm testing this, and seeing edge effects with perpage, where the numbers are reset at the bottom of pages. It seems running LaTeX thrice fixes this though.
    – raphink
    Commented Jun 19, 2015 at 8:58

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