footnote indentation

I haven't been able to find any other posts that quite address the problem that I am having here. I have a document in the book (AMS) document class which has many (incredibly interesting!) footnotes. These footnotes are formatted fine, with a nice indent at the start of the note, as long as I

Flush footnote indentation (was: Footnote on the next page)

Cheers! Herbert got the solution! For all Lyx users who want their footnote indentation to look like this:   text -- 1 bla bla bla bla bla bla    bla bla bla. 2 bla.       For Lyx 1.1.5 (I tested) write in latex preamble:    \newlength{\myFootnoteWidth}\setlength{\myFootnoteWidth