How do i reduce the minimum height of footnotes?

[bkitko]

It seems there is a minimum height set on my footnotes. If I increase leading, character size, paragraph spacing, or space between footnotes, they get bigger/further apart. However reducing those settings further, even down to zero, does not reduce the spaces between character baselines or the height of the frames around the footnotes.

 

[Barb Binder]

I'm not seeing that:

You can see my type attibutes above (and I'm using auto-leading so it is increasing/decreasing with the type size). Here are my Footnote Layout settings:

~Barb

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to Barb's amazing response, I'd recommend checking out help article https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/footnotes.html for more details about using foornotes.
Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[Laubender]

Hi bkitko,

also check, if the baseline of the footnote text is forced to the document's baseline grid with feature "Align To Baseline".

From my German InDesign where all the footnote text is aligned to the baseline of the document; see icon in the Paragraph panel at the bottom of the panel:

This feature turned off:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[bkitko]

Laubender, align all lines to grid is on. But even if I reduce the character size and leading to less than 7 gridlines (how tall it is now in the screenshot) the footnote "frames" do not get smaller. Even if I set align to grid to "none" the footnote "frames" do not shrink.

[Barb Binder]

Same file, same settings but with snap to baseline grid enabled:

My suggestion: take the footnotes off the grid, leave body on the grid.

Working with the baseline grid always involves compromise. If you want everything to snap to the grid, you're not going have as much control over the spacing as you might like. What's great about InDesign is that you can have some paragraphs on the grid and some paragraphs off the grid.

~Barb

[Laubender]

bkitko said: "…Even if I set align to grid to "none" the footnote "frames" do not shrink."

Ok. Then, I think, we need a sample document to assist here.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )