[texhax] auto footnote placement in textwidth area

[Uwe Lueck]

bala <jack_perl at yahoo.com> wrote 06.01.2012 18:06:00:
> I have drying multicolumn package with footnote placement
> in the text area width (automatically adjust in the \textwidth area).
> That is possible in LaTeX or XeLaTeX? If yes, could you please
> provide me some sample. I have tried ledmac, footmisc, etc.,
> but this is controlling in the footer align only. But, I need to
> automatically update in the textarea width.

I do not quite understand (i) "footnote placement in the text area width", 
(ii) "controlling in the footer align", and (iii) "automatically update in the
textarea width". The only sense I can make of (i) would be getting
footnotes typeset in a single column of text area width on the page
below the columns, spanning all of them.

And actually I do not quite understand (iv) "drying multicolumn package".
First I thought you tried the *multicol* package already, but you may be
looking for a package allowing multiple columns with text-area-width-wide
footnotes. Anyway, according to what I read, multicol *is* a package that 
does this. It happens without any additional footnote package, just

    \documentclass{article} %% or so
    \usepackage{multicol}
    %% more?
    \begin{document}
    %% title and such
    \begin{multicols}{NUMBER}
    TEXT.\footnote{FOOTNOTE TEXT.}
    \end{multicols}
    \end{document}

Maybe it stops working as soon as you add another footnote package,
I don't know, sorry ...

HTH -- Uwe.