Having single column footnotes in a twocolumn document without multicol

Question

I am writing a document with \documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{paper} In this document I am using a lot of \footnote{}. For the sake of having a neat lay-out I want the footnotes to span over both columns (so a single column footnote in a twocolumn document).

The only sollution I found online was using \usepackage{multicol} and \begin{2}{multicolumn} This did work, however the multicol package causes a lot of other issues with other floats in my document, so I am looking for a different solution. Below is a working example

\documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{paper}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
  \lipsum[1] \footnote{\lipsum[2]} \lipsum
\end{document}

Please see the intended result in green:

p.s. This question is asked numerous times on several forums, however all of them have remained unanswered, so I figure I would try again myself.

p.p.s. There is also a solution involving \mathfootnote but this does not seem to work for normal footnotes

Answer 1

Using separate \footnotemark and \footnotetext, you could manually delay the footnote until it has to split over two columns. Not exactly what you were looking for, but closer.

\documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{paper}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
  \lipsum[1]\footnotemark 
  
  \lipsum[3]
  \footnotetext{\lipsum[2]}
  \lipsum[4-6]
\end{document}