i have installed a slightly revised version of my footmisc package on the archive.
changes are: -- the long standing complaint about @makecol not matching has been resolved -- users may change the value of footnotelayout using enewcommand (previously they had to use def)
i have taken this opportunity to make the package's licence information correct (as in its layout).
having completed this (essentially bookkeeping) version, i hope to get around to a new version incorporating suggestions submitted by other users. unfortunately my timetable this year has got somewhat awry, for health reasons.
the package's catalogue entry may be reviewed at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/footmisc.html or the package directory may be browsed at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team