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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I did, as an experiment, quickly try some
Arabic text in an Edmac-generated footnote, and it worked. That is not to
say that Edmac will hold up in all circumstances, though. One
advantage of trying it out would be that if it does indeed work, then the issue
would be with Bigfoot and not the font itself. If it doesn't work, you are
perhaps not any further forward...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=sreenivasa.guttal@gmail.com
href="mailto:sreenivasa.guttal@gmail.com">Sreenivasa Guttal</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:53
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [XeTeX] XeLatex + Unicode +
Footnote issue</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for your comments.</DIV>
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<DIV>I choose bigfoot as it provided most of the features I wanted to have.
But, I can check if edmac satisfies my requirements, but before, are we saying
that it is a footnote package issue? Considering that it works for some fonts,
I was wondering if the issue is somewhere else. Specifically, if edmac works
for the same fonts, where bigfoot does not, then it could be a footnote
package issue.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Sreenivasa<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/3/19 John Was <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:john.was@ntlworld.com">john.was@ntlworld.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV>Hello</DIV>
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<DIV>I haven't been following this thread closely, but if the task in hand
is creation of a critical edition, the Edmac package may serve your
needs. It allows several layers of footnotes (up to five by default, I
think, though more can be added), and each one can be formatted
differently: I have used run-on app. crit. style in conjunction with
two-column editorial footnotes and full-width original footnotes, each with
a different cueing system (* etc. for authorial notes, superior italic
letters for app. crit. [but line-numbers can be used too if one doesn't want
to clutter up the text with cues], normal superscript numbers for editorial
notes). Edmac's system of automatically extracting the lemma from
the text and putting it in the app. crit. is a little tortuous, I find, so I
have always provided the lemmata myself within the app. crit. note - but the
package itself has proved robust, both in old EmTeX and now in
XeTeX (I haven't used LaTeX varieties though have often been
tempted!).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>When I last looked at Bigfoot, it seemed to provide a great deal of
extra functionality, but if you don't require all that, Edmac might
work. You do need to read the documentation with some care (though
nowadays I tend to copy and adapt macros that I've used in earlier work, so
I'm rather hazy myself about the finer points).</DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=sreenivasa.guttal@gmail.com
href="mailto:sreenivasa.guttal@gmail.com" target=_blank>Sreenivasa
Guttal</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=news3@nililand.de
href="mailto:news3@nililand.de" target=_blank>news3@nililand.de</A> ; <A
title=xetex@tug.org href="mailto:xetex@tug.org"
target=_blank>Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [XeTeX] XeLatex +
Unicode + Footnote issue</DIV>
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<DIV>Yes. For some Sanskrit fonts, I saw it partially working.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am a bit new to `tex world'. Is there a way out? This is a very
important feature for critical editions.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Sreenivasa<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Ulrike Fischer
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:news3@nililand.de"
target=_blank>news3@nililand.de</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:04:02 -0400 schrieb Patrick Carr:<BR>
<DIV><BR>>> I can reproduce the problem even with normal english
text. It seems<BR>>> to be font related, some fonts gives
footnotes as expected in<BR>>> para-mode and other
not.<BR>><BR>> I thought it might be fonts with real superscript
numerals versus<BR>> those without, but no. Using your example with a
myriad of fonts, I<BR>> got newlines for each footnote regardless of
the font I used. I.e., it<BR>> didn't work at all for me. At least it
wasn't intermittent.<BR>><BR>> (This is XeTeXk, Version
3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7))<BR><BR><BR></DIV>I too no longer
get different behaviour if I use only manyfoot<BR>(that's quite
confusing, I don't think that I changed something),<BR>but if I use
bigfoot instead it reappears: Verdana gives newline,<BR>Cambria
not.<BR><BR>I too suspected the superscripts at first,
but<BR>\makeatletter\let\@textsuperscript\relax gives normal numbers
but<BR>doesn't change the behaviour.<BR><BR>--<BR><FONT
color=#888888>Ulrike Fischer<BR></FONT>
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