scrartcl: Set footnote marker outside the mark width box

Question

In the scrartcl package, the \deffootnote command is used to adjust the typesetting of footnotes:

\deffootnote[<mark width>]{<indent>}{<parindent>}{<definition>}

… which affects the footnote layout like so:

As the user guide explains, "[t]he mark in the footnote is type-set right-aligned in a box with width mark width."

What I'm trying to do is set the footnote mark just beyond the right edge of that box, so that the mark begins consistently with the value for parindent. In other words, rather than this:

---
  1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
     Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget,
consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque.
...
 10. Nunc hendrerit lobortis diam et tristique. Duis ante tellus,
lobortis eu sodales sed, sollicitudin et enim.

I want to output this:

---
     1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
     Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget,
consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque.
...
     10. Nunc hendrerit lobortis diam et tristique. Duis ante tellus,
lobortis eu sodales sed, sollicitudin et enim.

Part of the difficulty is that I need to be able to handle footnotemarks of different lengths (1, 2, 3, ... 11, 12, 13, ... 101, 102, 103). Anyone know how I might be able to do that using KOMA-Script?

Answer 1

The correct definition of \deffootnote is

\deffootnote[<mark width>]{<indent>}{<parindent>}{<definition>}

(Note that the indent is set in the argument before parindent.)

You have to decide how much space is needed for the footnotenumbers. I will use 1.5em in the following example

\makebox[1.5em][l]{\thefootnote.}

Then you can use

\deffootnote
 [<indent+parindent+1.5em>]
 {<indent>}
 {<parindent>}
 {\hspace*{<indent+parindent>}\makebox[1.5em][l]{\thefootnote.}

to get the desired output.

Example with an indent of 0em and a parindent of 1em:

\deffootnote[2.5em]{0em}{1em}{\hspace*{1em}\makebox[1.5em][l]{\thefootnote.}

Or with an indent of 1.5em and a parindent of 1em:

\deffootnote[4em]{1.5em}{1em}{\hspace*{2.5em}\makebox[1.5em][l]{\thefootnotemark.}}