<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:"arial", "helvetica", sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">> From:</span></b> Fr. Michael Gilmary <FrMichaelGilmary@maronitemonks.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">> To:</span></b> Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex@tug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">> Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 18, 2010 22:19:51<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">> Subject:</span></b> Re: [XeTeX] Footnote refs<br></font>> <br>> Meho R. wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> You're right about memoir, I got the same result as you did. After playing a little bit, I redefined separately footnote mark in text and footnote mark in footnotes and it seems that > > this code is working fine with memoir too<br>> <br>>
<br>> Indeed, it works. But why is there an \mbox in the first \renewcommand and a \setlength with \noindent in the second \renewcommand?<br>> <br>> If I simplify them both (throwing caution to the wind) and have<br>> <br>> \makeatletter<br>> <br>> \renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{%<br>> \textsuperscript{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}}<br>> <br>> \renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%<br>> \makebox[1.8em][r]{\textsuperscript{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}}{#1}}<br>> <br>> \makeatother<br>> <br>> <br>> It seems to get the same result. Do you know if this will result in other undesired effects?<br>> <br>> <br>> -- United in adoration of Jesus, <br>> <br>> <br>> fr. michael gilmary, mma<br>> <br>> Most Holy Trinity Monastery<br>> 67 Dugway Road<br>> Petersham, MA 01366-9725<br>> <br>> <span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.MaroniteMonks.org">www.MaroniteMonks.org</a></span><br>>
<br>> </div><div><br></div><div>Well, \noindent will make sure that first line doesn't get indented, and \setlength\parindent will make sure that, in case of multi-paragraph footnotes, every new paragraph does get indented. \mbox makes sure that you don't get line break at undesired places, and I like to play safe ;-)</div></div><br></body></html>