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How I can change the distance between the text and footnote rule in this example: 

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\RequirePackage{luatex85}
\usepackage[paperwidth=140mm,paperheight=210mm,top=25mm,bottom=20mm,left=20mm,right=20mm,heightrounded]{geometry}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}

\addtolength{\footskip}{22mm}
\makeatletter
\def\footnoterule{\kern-3mm\kern-3\p@
  \hrule \@width 2in \kern 2.6\p@
  \kern 3mm}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

Some text\footnote{Footnote example}
\kant[1-3]
\end{document}
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With the option footnotesep, at best (like the default) with a bit shrink and stretch:

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\RequirePackage{luatex85}
\usepackage[paperwidth=140mm,paperheight=210mm,top=25mm,bottom=20mm,
         left=20mm,right=20mm,heightrounded,
         footnotesep=3cm plus 4pt minus 4pt %<--- change to a suitable value
         ]{geometry}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}

\addtolength{\footskip}{22mm}
\makeatletter
\def\footnoterule{\kern-3mm\kern-3\p@
  \hrule \@width 2in \kern 2.6\p@
  \kern 3mm}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

Some text\footnote{Footnote example}
\kant[1-3]
\end{document}

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  • I was unaware that the geometry package has this option. It seems unrelated to the rest of what the package does, namely dealing with placement of the text block, headers, footers and margin paragraphs on the page. I would have just set \footnotesep directly instead.
    – Harald Hanche-Olsen
    Oct 20, 2017 at 8:47
  • @HaraldHanche-Olsen \footnotesep is for the space after the line, before the line is \skip\footins. And footnotes are in an insert so it is not completly outside geometries dealings.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Oct 20, 2017 at 8:55
  • Ah, my bad. But then, the name footnotesep for the option is a rather confusing one. And footnotes go inside the text block, which is why it didn't seem to me to belong. AFAICT, spaces surrounding figures and tables are not adjustable via the geometry package, and they seem to belong in the same category.
    – Harald Hanche-Olsen
    Oct 20, 2017 at 9:01
  • I tried footnotesep=7mm and it works fine. Also footnotesep doesnt seem to put distance to my second set of footnotes. But I get a bad box.
    – alfred
    Oct 20, 2017 at 10:32
  • Give footnotesep a bit shrink and stretch: footnotesep=7mm plus 4pt minus 4pt
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Oct 20, 2017 at 10:42
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Based on suggestions by Ulrike Fischer and David Carlisle I increased \skip\footins with \setlength{\skip\footins}{5mm} :

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\RequirePackage{luatex85}
\usepackage[paperwidth=140mm,paperheight=210mm,top=25mm,bottom=20mm,left=20mm,right=20mm,heightrounded]{geometry}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}

\setlength{\skip\footins}{5mm} %<------------ add this
\def\footnoterule{
\kern-3mm \hrule width 2in \kern -.4pt 
\kern 3mm} 

\begin{document}

Some text\footnote{Footnote example}
\kant[1-3]
\end{document}
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  • Why don't you want to use the geometry option? It does exactly the same.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Oct 20, 2017 at 9:52
  • I thought footnotesep adds space around a footnote set (I have two), and \footskip for some reason isnt working when I run it.
    – alfred
    Oct 20, 2017 at 10:00
  • Didn't you try my example? And why didn't you comment it if you think it doesn't do what you want?
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Oct 20, 2017 at 10:07
  • Sorry. I did try it, but probably am doing something wrong. At first the distance was very big, like in your image, than after I disabled footnotesep, changing \addtolength{\footskip}{5mm} didnt modify anything. Sorry for not commenting on that.
    – alfred
    Oct 20, 2017 at 10:13
  • Well I used footnotesep=3cm for the demo, so yes this gives a large space. Change the 3cm to whatever value you need.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Oct 20, 2017 at 10:18

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