Hans van der Meer wrote:
A small sample file is difficult because I had the impression it did not always happen; with me these things seem to happen mostly with big files :-) Another complication is that sometimes a footnote was withheld and I could not find out what caused it. When I retyped "sentence.\footnote" sometimes the footnote did appear as it should.
that has to do with the fact that tex has to find an optimum you can play with the 'split' parameter and set it to tolerant, strict, verystrict
I sent the problem to this newsgroup just in case it was a readily recognized phenomenon. It seems not, so I propose to let it go for the moment. I will watch out for it to happen and then will first try to nail it down to a small sample before reporting again.
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