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+\documentclass[DIV=9, pagesize=auto]{scrartcl}
+
+\usepackage{fixltx2e}
+\usepackage{etex}
+\usepackage{lmodern}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage{textcomp}
+\usepackage{microtype}
+\usepackage[unicode=true]{hyperref}
+
+\newcommand*{\mail}[1]{\href{mailto:#1}{\texttt{#1}}}
+\newcommand*{\pkg}[1]{\textsf{#1}}
+
+\addtokomafont{title}{\rmfamily}
+
+\title{The \pkg{fnpara} package}
+\subtitle{A \LaTeX\ style to typeset footnotes in run-on paragraphs.}
+\author{Chris Rowley\and Dominik Wujastyk\and Bradley Smith}
+\date{11/12/95}
+
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\maketitle
+
+\section{History:}
+
+A vain attempt at this \LaTeX\ modification was tried in late
+September 1988 by Dominik Wujastyk, and sent to \TeX hax and UK\TeX\ %
+for comment. Chris Rowley came up with a working
+version a few days later, but it still needs thorough testing.
+
+
+\section{The Style:}
+
+This \LaTeX\ style changes the way \LaTeX\ does footnotes. With this
+style invoked (\verb+\documentstyle[fnpara]{article}+), footnotes will
+be typeset in a running paragraph, instead of one above another.
+It is suitable for texts such as critical editions, which contain
+many short footnotes.
+
+This is based on the \TeX\ macros described by Knuth in the
+\TeX book, Dirty Tricks, pages~398--400. It is not tested beyond
+some simple examples. In particular, it has not been tested
+properly in connection with even the simplest of environments, nor with
+other floats.
+
+(In fact, ordinary LaTeX footnotes sometimes do not work well
+if they need splitting (e.\,g.\ producing blank pages,
+or appearing in shufled form): but these
+problems should not affect this style.
+I --CR-- have sent in a Bug Report about some
+of these problems.)
+
+Be aware of Knuth's note on the limitations of this method of
+doing the job: the \TeX\ stack is used four times per footnote,
+and the stack is limited (\TeX book pp.~300--301). So if you have
+very many footnotes (in the hundreds) and encounter
+%
+\begin{verbatim}
+"! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [... save size ...]"
+\end{verbatim}
+%
+errors, you may need to break your text into smaller sections.
+Fortunately, this is very easy to do with \LaTeX. And the
+footnote counter can be reset to make the joins seamless.
+
+
+\section{Authors}
+
+\KOMAoption{parskip}{half}
+\selectfont
+Chris Rowley\\
+Office tel: (England) 01 794 0575\\
+Janet: \verb+CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX+
+
+Dominik Wujastyk\\
+Office tel: (England) 01 387 4477 x 3013\\
+Janet: \verb+Wujastyk@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID+
+
+October 3, 1988
+
+\bigskip
+
+Modified 11/12/95\\
+Updated with new copies of relevant definitions from base files, and
+added definitions for paragraph footnotes inside minipages
+
+Bradley Smith\\
+(612) 624--1535\\
+\mail{basmith@prometheus.chem.umn.edu}
+
+\end{document}