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[FrankMittelbach]

Internal housekeeping

Status of pull request

• Ready to merge

Checklist of required changes before merge will be approved

• Test file(s) added
• Version and date string updated in changed source files
• Relevant \changes entries in source included
• Relevant changes.txt updated
• [n/a] Rollback provided (if necessary)?
• [n/a] ltnewsX.tex (and/or latexchanges.tex) updated

additional plugs as suggested aren't yet included (probably after next -dev release)

[user227621]

I think something got confused here. You have deleted the plug (wrongly) named floats-footnotes-space (which actually implements the sequence floats-space-footnotes). This means that there is no longer a plug that implements the sequence floats-space-footnotes. The sequence for the bottom option has been changed to space-floats-footnotes, but that should actually be floats-space-footnotes.

I think the correct thing to do would be to simply change the name of the plug floats-footnotes-space to floats-space-footnotes and correct its description.

[FrankMittelbach]

I think something got confused here. You have deleted the plug (wrongly) named floats-footnotes-space (which actually implements the sequence floats-space-footnotes). This means that there is no longer a plug that implements the sequence floats-space-footnotes.

The plug floats-space-footnotes was already in the file (with the correct implementation). The other one (now deleted) was simply a copy with a different name.

The sequence for the bottom option has been changed to space-floats-footnotes, but that should actually be floats-space-footnotes.

That is not true either (I think).

Footmisc implements it the way I corrected it, because the implementation in latex-lab was simply wrong before (and that is also how it is documented e.g., TLC3 page I-215).
Check out

\documentclass{article}

%\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}                  % floats-space-footnote
%\usepackage[bottomfloats]{footmisc}            % footnotes-space-floats
\usepackage[bottomfloats,belowfloats]{footmisc} % space-floats-footnotes

\raggedbottom

\usepackage{kantlipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[t] FIGURE \caption{A}\end{figure}

\kant*[1]\footnote{A footnote}

\begin{figure}[b] FIGURE \caption{B}\end{figure}

\kant*[2]\footnote{A footnote}

\pagebreak

\kant[3-6]\kant*[7]\footnote{A footnote}

This shows the clearpage skip bug without footmisc!

\begin{figure}[b] FIGURE \caption{C}\end{figure}

\end{document}

So I think everything is correct.

[FrankMittelbach]

I think something got confused here. You have deleted the plug (wrongly) named floats-footnotes-space (which actually implements the sequence floats-space-footnotes). This means that there is no longer a plug that implements the sequence floats-space-footnotes.

The plug floats-space-footnotes was already in the file (with the correct implementation). The other one (now deleted) was simply a copy with a different name.

ok looks like I have to many versions open ... guess you are right here, there is a mistake on my part, so forget the first part of my reply.

[u-fischer]

• \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} should use the (missing) floats-space-footnotes. That is what I get without the new or.

• The date of the footmisc replacement should be updated, currently it says

latex-lab-footmisc 2022/03/08 v6.0d a miscellany of footnote facilitie
s -- latex-lab version

• Typo in ltoutput: defaultfor

[FrankMittelbach]

The sequence for the bottom option has been changed to space-floats-footnotes, but that should actually be floats-space-footnotes.

That is not true either (I think).

you were right here too ... not my day ...

[user227621]

you were right here too ... not my day ...

Well, maybe today is really not your day ;-). Now the descriptions in clsguide and ltnews are correct, but the actual plug definition (starting on line 2468) still uses the wrong name floats-footnotes-space (instead of floats-space-footnotes) and has the wrong description:

%  \begin{plugdecl}{floats-footnotes-space}
%     As before but the \cs{vfill} is at the bottom (page is ragged
%    bottom).
%    \begin{macrocode}
\NewSocketPlug {build/column/outputbox}{floats-footnotes-space} {%
  \@outputbox@attachfloats
  \@if@footnotes@TF
      {\@outputbox@append{\vfill}}%
      {\@outputbox@reinsertbskip}%
  \@outputbox@appendfootnotes
}
%    \end{macrocode}
%  \end{plugdecl}

The changes entry could also be reworded:

2025-02-19  Frank Mittelbach  <[email protected]>

	* ltoutput.dtx:
	Dropped plug floats-footnoteotes-space that was added by mistake

No plug was dropped, and the wrong name was not so badly wrong that it contained the word footnoteotes ;-).