[texhax] about \skip\footins --footnoterule

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Fri Sep 26 05:47:19 CEST 2008


On  25 Sep, 2008, at 18:09, Donald Arseneau wrote:

> "Axel E. Retif" <axel.retif at mac.com> writes:
>
>>     \renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vspace*{-3pt}}%
>
> That is an error!  \footnoterule must consume zero vertical space.

Thank you. I'll look into this. I took half the code from The LaTeX  
Companion, 2nd ed., p. 112:

> \footnoterule [...] The default definition is equivalent to the  
> following:
>
>   \renewcommand\footnoterule{\vspace*{-3pt}%
>      \hrule width 2in height 0.4pt \vspace*{2.6pt}}

So to get no rule I omitted the second half of the code.

Thank you again.


Axel



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