How to align short footnotes (centred) and longer footnotes (left) in one
document
I am wondering whether there is some package/code that addresses the
following three criteria:
Shorter footnotes, e.g. Quine (1960, 22), would be sitting centred on the
bottom of the page, if (and only if) there is only one footnote on the
particular page.
Once a longer footnote appears on a given page, i.e. one that has more
than one line and thus runs by the 'usual' footnote margins, a shorter
one, appearing on the same page, would 'adapt' and sit aligned to the
'usual' left margin as well.
Additionally, in the case of two or even three short footnotes appearing
on one page at the same time (either in absence or presence of a longer
one), they would 'become' one paragraph. That is, the shorter footnotes
would all be in one line but still be centred.
I do not have any MWE here since my question is rather about whether this
is possible at all. The handbook and all sources I am aware of do not
discuss this issue (or I did not find it, in which case I apologise).
I am reading a couple of recent Oxford University Press books right now,
which do have exactly this footnote design, and I am curious if it can be
achieved using TeX/LaTeX/XeTeX. I am aware of footmisc, manyfoot, and
bigfoot but neither have an obvious statement in the documentation that
would resolve the issue. I suppose that manyfoot, for instance, would help
with the paragraph style issue, by introducing different levels, but then
you have different counters, different ways to call footnotes, which is is
complicated or at least non-ideal. I am looking for a more basic solution.
Thank you so much for helping.
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