[texhax] about \skip\footins --footnoterule

[Axel E. Retif]

On  26 Sep, 2008, at 15:16, Donald Arseneau wrote:

> "Axel E. Retif" <axel.retif at mac.com> writes:
>
>>> That is an error!  \footnoterule must consume zero vertical space.
>>
>> Thank you. I'll look into this. I took half the code from The LaTeX
>> Companion, 2nd ed., p. 112:
>>
>>> \footnoterule [...] The default definition is equivalent to the   
>>> following:
>>>
>>>  \renewcommand\footnoterule{\vspace*{-3pt}%
>>>     \hrule width 2in height 0.4pt \vspace*{2.6pt}}
>>
>> So to get no rule I omitted the second half of the code.
>
> See how the vspaces plus the height (thickness) of the rule add
> up to zero?
>
> For no rule, just define
>
> \renewcommand\footnoterule{}

Yes, that should have been obvious to me.

Thank you very much.

Axel