[XeTeX] Footnote refs

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Well, things are getting curiouser and curiouser!

After looking closely at the use of footnote superscript reference 
numbers from previous TL installations, there's a difference. The legacy 
fonts for (La)TeX didn't have a superiors table or superior glyphs. 
Thus, the simple use of \textsuperscript to achieve the result, which 
AFAICT simply scale and raise the number glyphs.

But it looks different than the results I got before with XeLaTeX and 
Garamond Premier Pro (or you can use Minion Pro or Junicode or Linux 
Libertine, etc., which have the sups table). So, here's my solution to 
get the desired result:

\setmainfont[Numbers={OldStyle,Proportional}]{Minion Pro}


\newfontfamily\fnmarkfont{Minion Pro} % results in regular numbers used 
as superscripts
%\newfontfamily\fnmarkfont[VerticalPosition=Superior]{Minion Pro} % uses 
superior tables' glyphs for superscripts

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{\mbox{%
\textsuperscript{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}}} % regular nums as superscripts
%\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}} % real superscripts

\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\setlength\parindent{1em}%
\noindent
\makebox[1.8em][r]{\textsuperscript{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}}{#1}} % 
regular nums as superscripts
%\makebox[1.8em][r]{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}{#1}} % real superscripts

\makeatother


You can comment/uncomment things to see the difference. It's much more 
pleasing, to /my/ eye at least, to use the real superscripts. See 
attached image to compare.

So, I'm back to the question that maybe only Jonathan can answer:

Has XeTeX changed in its default use of the superscript tables for 
footnotes? It must be something like the change for using contextual 
alternates by default.




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fr. michael gilmary, mma

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