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Is there some way to force \footnotetext to appear on the same page as \footenotemark as much as possible?

Sometimes when I place a \footnotemark, finish writing a paragraph, and then put a \footnotetext below the paragraph, the footnote is placed on the next page even when the note is short and can clearly fit on the same page as the mark. I'm not worried about footnotes spanning multiple pages, only that as much as possible they are placed on the same page as the mark. Here's (a somewhat long) example:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,notitlepage]{report}
\usepackage[left=1in, right=1in, top=1in, bottom=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}   % For line spacing

\begin{document}

\doublespacing
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%% NOTE THE FOOTNOTEMARK BELOW %%
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\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}
\stepcounter{footnote}
\footnotetext{
    A short footnote that should be on the same page
}
\end{document}

The mark is on the first page, but the note appears on the second page.

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  • Why do you use \footnotemark/\footnotetext instead of \footnote?
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Jul 31, 2017 at 11:52
  • I'm not entirely sure. I must have read it somewhere on this site as fixing some other problem that I can't reall. It looks like using \footnote might help the issue, but I'd rather a solution using \footnotemark if possible. I have more than 100 footnotes and I'd rather not go through them all and replace them if not necessary.
    – Brian Albert Monroe
    Jul 31, 2017 at 12:31
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    Sometimes you need \footnotemark/\footnotetext, e.g. when tables are involved, but there is always the danger that the text gets separated from the mark. If all your uses are as in your example there is no way to prevent it. The footnote text is too far away from the mark. So correct your code.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Jul 31, 2017 at 12:40
  • In an old document of mine, I prevented long footnotes from spreading on two successive footers by using \interfootnotelinepenalty=10000. But this is just, like, 25 % of what you need, I guess.
    – Alice M.
    Jul 31, 2017 at 13:10
  • The para option of the footmisc package “causes footnotes to be typeset as a single paragraph at the bottom of the page on which they occur.”, but the “single paragraph” part might be annoying for you. Edit: actually, if your footnotes are short notes, this might be nice!
    – Alice M.
    Jul 31, 2017 at 13:16

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The para option from the footmisc package might help you if you have lots of small notes.

From the documentation:

This option (derived from code by Dominik Wujastyk and Chris Rowley) causes footnotes to be typeset as a single paragraph at the bottom of the page on which they occur. In the case that there is only one footnote on the page, no effect will be observed. However, if there are several footnotes on the page, they will be run together in the page foot, each introduced by its footnote mark.

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