I'm using parallel footnotes in my document. Out of the box, it looks great:
However, I want to reduce the footnote size to
\tiny
. Easy enough with this command: \renewcommand\footnotesize{\tiny}
When I do this, the footnotes do indeed appear tiny, but the line spacing (line-height?) is retained from \footnotesize
, making them look double spaced, and failing to achieve the intended spacing savings. See:
I have experimented with no luck in trying to use the setspace
package to apply just to the footnotes region. Also, I would like to avoid having to inject something into each footnote, preferring to define something upfront and have it apply globally.
Here's a minimal working example:
\documentclass[twoside,a5paper,6pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage[para,hang]{footmisc}
\begin{document}
\section{Regular Footnotes, Regular Spacing}
\lipsum[1]\footnote{Small footnote 1}
\lipsum[2] \footnote{Small footnote 2}
\lipsum[3]\footnote{Small footnote 3}
\lipsum[4]\footnote{Long footnote: \lipsum[5]}
\newpage
\renewcommand\footnotesize{\tiny\par}%How to make the line height/spacing \tiny as well?
\section{Small Footnotes, but Regular Spacing}
\lipsum[1]\footnote{Small footnote 1}
\lipsum[2] \footnote{Small footnote 2}
\lipsum[3]\footnote{Small footnote 1}
\lipsum[4]\footnote{Long footnote \lipsum[5]\par}
\end{document}
6pt
has no effect when used with thebook
document class. The only fontsize-related options that thearticle
,report
, andbook
classes know about are10pt
(the default),11pt
, and12pt
.