[tex-live] Footmisc and setspace problem

[Robin Fairbairns]

Meho R. <meho_r at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I noticed that footmisc and setspace packages don't work very well
> together in texlive 2008 although in the manual of footmisc it is
> stated that if setspace is put before footmisc in the preamble
> everything should be fine. Still, footnotes retain default spacing no
> matter of \setstretch given. A bug? Does anyone other have same
> problem? 

[note that my address is prominently quoted in the source, with a note
that i continue to support the package.  did mail to my address fail?]

it is not a bug, it's a design feature.

given the much smaller size of footnote text, the same stretch as that
used in the main text is unlikely to be useful.

however, if you _really_ want the effect, set it up by

  \renewcommand\footnotelayout{\onehalfspacing}

or whatever.

double spacing is designed to allow space between lines of typewriter
output to write comments.  (i never used to find it possible...)  this
is plainly a ridiculous idea with footnotes, but if needs must...

robin fairbairns