[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

[John Was]

I can't take time to absorb that, but it looks as if it wants to force the 
indentation at the start of a footnote to be 1.5em, which ought to be OK 
(rather more than I would have, but no matter just now).

Just before the first line of your text (after you've loaded all your 
packages and so on), try

\global\parindentFFN=1.5em

and see what happens.  Whatever is going on, it looks as if with your 
current coding the program is attempting to put a giant amount of space 
(surely wider than your actual text width) before the footnote cue, and that 
is creating chaos.

If that is no good, I think I'll have to bow out of this thread - sorry!


John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alessandro Ceschini" <alessandroceschini.it at gmail.com>
To: "Customizing footnote markers" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 05 June 2011 17:25
Subject: [XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers


>> To be honest, I wouldn't worry about the \makeatletter nonsense; it
>> really
>> isn't at the heart of your problem.  If you are getting an \hbox that
>> is
>> overfull
>> by over 381pt (5.27"), the numbers have all but disappeared, and the
>> text
>> appears to be cut, then John Was's suggestion that an indentation of
>> ten
>> inches might not have been what you intended may well be the cause.
>
> My source is frenchb.ldf!
> Please take a look at this piece of code from frenchb.ldf dealing with
> footnotes:
>
> \newcommand*{\dotFFN}{.}
> \newcommand*{\kernFFN}{\kern .5em}
> \newdimen\parindentFFN
> \parindentFFN=10in
> \def\ftnISsymbol{\@fnsymbol\c at footnote}
> \long\def\@makefntextFB#1{\ifx\thefootnote\ftnISsymbol
>                            \@makefntextORI{#1}%
>                          \else
>                            \parindent=\parindentFFN
>                            \rule\z@\footnotesep
>                            \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{\@thefnmark}%
>                            \ifdim\wd\@tempboxa>\z@
>                              \llap{\@thefnmark}\dotFFN\kernFFN
>                            \fi #1
>                          \fi}%
> \AtBeginDocument{\@ifpackageloaded{bigfoot}{}%
>                  {\ifdim\parindentFFN<10in
>                   \else
>                      \parindentFFN=\parindent
>                      \ifdim\parindentFFN<1.5em\parindentFFN=1.5em\fi
>                   \fi
>                   \let\@makefntextORI\@makefntext
>                   \long\def\@makefntext#1{%
>                      \ifFBFrenchFootnotes
>                         \@makefntextFB{#1}%
>                      \else
>                         \@makefntextORI{#1}%
>                      \fi}%
>                  }%
>                }
>
> -- 
>
>
>                          Alessandro Ceschini
>
>
>
>
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