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[2023/11/16\coolfnversionnumber\
 A cool way to format footnotes]
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% FOOTNOTES
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% from https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/305033/
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\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
\makeatletter
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% multi paragraph footnotes
% are inherently pretty bad 
% but they happen in law
% so might as well deal with them? so a slight spacing to compensate
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\newenvironment{Parskip}{%
   \par
   \parskip=0.25\baselineskip \advance\parskip by 0pt plus 1pt
   \parindent=\z@
   \def\@listI{\leftmargin\leftmargini
      \topsep\z@ \parsep\parskip \itemsep\z@}
   \let\@listi\@listI
   \@listi
   \def\@listii{\leftmargin\leftmarginii
      \labelwidth\leftmarginii\advance\labelwidth-\labelsep
      \topsep\z@ \parsep\parskip \itemsep\z@}
   \def\@listiii{\leftmargin\leftmarginiii
       \labelwidth\leftmarginiii\advance\labelwidth-\labelsep
       \topsep\z@ \parsep\parskip \itemsep\z@}
   \partopsep=\z@
}{\par}
\makeatother
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\newcommand{\fnindent}{1em}
\usepackage{calc}% for maths
\newlength{\lengtha}
\setlength{\lengtha}{\textwidth}
\newlength{\lengthb}%maths again
\newlength{\lengthc}

\setlength{\lengthc}{\fnindent}
\setlength{\lengthb}{1.25\lengthc}%parblock

\makeatletter
\@ifclassloaded{memoir}{
}{
\usepackage{hanging}
}
\makeatother
  % for hanging paragraphs
\renewcommand\footnoterule{}
% ^ no one wants a rule sep for FN!
\AtBeginDocument{\flushbottom}
%^just to be safe 
\makeatletter
\long\def\@makefntext#1{\leavevmode
  \@makefnmark\nobreak
  #1%
}
\makeatother
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% the magic
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\makeatletter
 \renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
\begin{minipage}[t]{\lengthb}%
\noindent\normalfont%
\@thefnmark%

\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth-\lengthb}%
\begin{Parskip}\begin{hangparas}{\lengthc}{1}
\noindent#1\end{hangparas}\end{Parskip}%
\end{minipage}%
}
\makeatother
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