Page Layout ⇒ Problem with bottom of page with many footnotes and revtex4-1

[Cham]

I'm experiencing some glitches with the revtex4-1 class, footnotes and page margins, and I don't know why.

Here's a view of the problem. In this case, footnotes are too low on the page :

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Here's a not so short MWE reproducing the glitch :

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,nofootinbib,notitlepage,tightenlines]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in,bottom=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{microtype}
\raggedbottom
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\kern -1ex\rule{0.3\linewidth}{0.5pt} \\ \vspace{1ex}}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\pagestyle{plain}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\author{Name}
\affiliation{Affiliation.}
%\date{}
	\begin{center}
		Course number
	\end{center}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\blindtext\footnote{Bla bla bla bla : \par \url{http:/some_url}.} :
	\begin{gather}
		\frac{1}{2} = \frac{3}{4}, \\[12pt]
		\frac{1}{2} \ne \frac{3}{4}.
	\end{gather}
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\section{Another title}

\blindtext

\end{document}

I'm not sure anymore what options to add into the geometry package to get a proper bottom of page, without affecting the top. Any suggestions ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I don't see a solution here (yet). I would try to avoid this issue by making shorter footnotes or adjust in a different way in the text.

Stefan

[Cham]

Well, I "solved" the problem by pushing the next section to a new page, using \newpage. It gave a better looking footnote spacing.

This footnote spacing in revtex4-1 is weird though.