How to ensure that footnotes are left justified

[Gerry Wolff]

I'm producing an article using the 'article' class and I find that,
although the text is left justified, the footnotes are justified left
and right.

How can I ensure that the footnotes are left justified as well as the
main text?

I have tried putting \raggedright in various places but nothing seems
to work.

With thanks.

[Vahid Damanafshan]

Send your preamble lines. Otherwise, nobody can help you.

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[James & Nash]

Hello Gerry,

> I'm producing an article using the 'article' class and I find that,
> although the text is left justified, the footnotes are justified left
> and right.
>
> How can I ensure that the footnotes are left justified as well as the
main text?

Try putting the following into your preamble:

`usepackage[flushmargin,ragged]{footmisc}

You can then use the `footnote command as normal. I hope this fixes
your problem. Please let me know.

Take care

James

[Gerry Wolff]

Thanks for this advice. I have put the line in as you suggest but the
footnotes are still left and right justified. The same is true, even
when I take out 'flushmargin'.

At present, I have the following lines at the beginning of the file:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[dvipdfm, bookmarks=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[ragged]{footmisc}

\bibliographystyle{apalike}

\newcommand{\superscript}[1]{\ensuremath{^{\textrm{\scriptsize #1}}}}
\newcommand{\subscript}[1]{\ensuremath{_{\textrm{\scriptsize #1}}}}

\setlength{\parindent}{6mm}
% \setlength{\parskip}{2ex}

\raggedright


On 13 Sep, 21:29, "James & Nash" <james.austin1...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

[jon]

On Sep 13, 6:21 pm, Gerry Wolff <gerrywolf...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this advice. I have put the line in as you suggest but the
> footnotes are still left and right justified. The same is true, even
> when I take out 'flushmargin'.
>
> At present, I have the following lines at the beginning of the file:
>
> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
>
> \usepackage{fancyvrb}
> \usepackage[round]{natbib}
> \usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage[dvipdfm, bookmarks=true]{hyperref}
> \usepackage{times}
> \usepackage{epsfig}
> \usepackage{color}
> \usepackage[ragged]{footmisc}
>
> \bibliographystyle{apalike}
>
> \newcommand{\superscript}[1]{\ensuremath{^{\textrm{\scriptsize #1}}}}
> \newcommand{\subscript}[1]{\ensuremath{_{\textrm{\scriptsize #1}}}}
>
> \setlength{\parindent}{6mm}
> % \setlength{\parskip}{2ex}
>
> \raggedright

then this is not really a minimal example. the above code gives me
ragged right main text and footnote text. (and many of these packages
are irrelevant to the current problem you're facing.)

send a complete minimal example, from \documentclass to \end
{document}, with as few packages loaded as you need to demonstrate
your problem and someone will probably be able to give you a solution.

cheers,
jon.