Footnote spacing without titlepage

[folofjc]

In the file sbl-paper.tex, if the commane \maketitle is commented out, the footnote spacing is not correct. The attached file has this one line change (just change the extension from txt to tex). See the difference between footnote 1 and footnote 2. I also attached the pdf that I get. sbl-paper.txt sbl-paper.pdf

For reference, I am using XeLaTeX and biber. I ran xelatex, followed by biber, followed by xelatex two more times to get the references right.

[dcpurton]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of issue #49. The following code single spaces the footnote if bidi is not loaded:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=verbose]{biblatex}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{bidi}
\doublespacing
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
Filler text \autocite{cotton}.
\end{document}

[folofjc]

Sorry, I spoke too soon. The fix in #49 does not fix this issue. Without \maketitle the footnotes are still double spaced.

[dcpurton]

This is not a duplicate. It's a bug in sbl-paper.sty caused by loading setspace before bidi is loaded.

It can be fixed by moving RequirePackage{setspace} to just before the \doublespacing command.

Getting packages loading in the write order with bidi is a pain :(

I'll push this change now.

[folofjc]

Yeah, I have had lots of pain with bidi over the years. Thanks for looking into it! I'll look for it in TeXLive.

[dcpurton]

These changes won't make it into TeXLive for a while. The dev branch is a bit unstable at the moment and there are some more changes I want to make.

Also, I have just discovered that moving setspace is no good! This causes other problems! Hyperlinks to footnotes break and apparently footmisc must be loaded after setspace. sigh

[dcpurton]

This is sort of fixed in biblatex-sbl 0.9. I no longer recommend using polyglossia. Use babel instead. The example sbl-paper document has been updated to do this. Since bidi is no longer loaded, you don't get any problems when not including a title page.

[dcpurton]

If anyone still needs to use bidi then I think this will help: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/479145/bidi-package-messing-up-line-spacing-in-xelatex/479197#479197

[folofjc]

Thanks, I'll look into it. I just also saw your comment from last year about babel vs polyglossia. I have not tried babel with Xelatex. I'll have to look into that as well.

[dcpurton]

@folofjc , I recommend babel with lualatex actually. The only exception is if any of your languages don't render well with lualatex and xelatex is required. Once luatex support for harfbuzz is finished this won't be a problem either.