For my dissertation I need to put a space between the footnote marker and text. I don't know if there is package that could make this easier, or maybe add a modification to the following code:
Edit: I cleaned up the MWE.
%footnote
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\noindent\makebox[0.7in][r]{\@makefnmark}\raggedright#1}
\makeatother
\setlength{\footnotesep}{24pt}
Below is the full MWE
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.25in,right=1.25in,top=1in,bottom=1in,headheight=12pt,headsep=12pt,ignorehead,ignorefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\usepackage[style=sbl,maxcitenames=3,maxbibnames=100,minnames=1,backend=biber,citepages=omit,fullbibrefs=true,sblfootnotes=false,citereset=chapter,doi=false,url=true]{biblatex}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
%footnote
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\noindent\makebox[0.7in][r]{\@makefnmark}\raggedright#1}
\makeatother
\setlength{\footnotesep}{24pt}
\begin{document}
This is a sample text with a sample footnote.\footnote{This is the footnote text. I would like a space between the footnote marker and the footnote text.}
\end{document}
.~\footnote{...}
? (seems a strange requirement, to leave the marker hanging in free space, but thesis requirements are often strange...)