It's annoying when footnotes unnecessarily split onto the next page in a LaTeX document. I've run into that problem while annotating some texts using LyX. Adding this to "LaTeX Preamble" under LyX's Document Settings seems to help:

\interfootnotelinepenalty=10000

Critical Edition Typesetting with LaTeX For typesetting critical editions in the traditional manner with LaTeX, there are (somewhat basically) two macro packages: …

tufte-latex - Project Hosting on Google Code As discussed in the Book Design thread of Edward Tufte's Ask E.T Forum, this site is home to LaTeX classes for producing handouts and books according to the style of Edward R. Tufte and Richard F…