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Originally Posted by eping
MS Word implements this very well, whatever page size you set, the footnote will be displayed correctly at the bottom.
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Word uses one of the first two options I described: it shifts the bottom lines onto the next page if the anchor is on the penultimate or final line of a page and it splits a long footnote if the anchor is on the third-last line or above, leaving 2 lines on the original page and the rest on the next page. Neither method is optimal. It does
not attempt to rebalance the page length over several pages so that the anchor is shifted, which is the best way of dealing with it.
But since it's trivial to program a popup window or a separately-scrolled region at the bottom of the page, there's no reason for ereaders to attempt to emulate the clumsy practices needed in print.