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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I'd be curious to know what kind of a book
could support a ten-inch indentation before the footnote-cue...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk href="mailto:P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk">Philip TAYLOR
(Webmaster, Ret'd)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Customizing footnote markers</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=alessandroceschini.it@gmail.com
href="mailto:alessandroceschini.it@gmail.com">Alessandro Ceschini</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 05 June 2011 16:21</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [XeTeX] Customizing footnote
markers</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR>Alessandro Ceschini wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">Well, it looks to me as if the expansion of @makefntext tries
to perform an assignment to \parindentFFN (even though
you omitted an explicit assignment operator); surely this is
not what you intended ?
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap="">I intended to have an indentation before the footnote marker.
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>Ah, but what you have, rather than an indentation, is the
intended<BR><I>dimension </I>of the intendation (ten inches, in this
case). If you want<BR>this dimension to be used to effect an
indentation, then you need to<BR>add a command to cause an indentation (of
specified dimension)<BR>to take place. I don't speak LaTeX, but you
might consider (e.g.)<BR><BR> \renewcommand \@makefntext
[1]%<BR> {%<BR>
\leavevmode \hbox to \parindentFFN
{}\@thefnmark.~#1%<BR> }<BR><BR>or
something along those lines.<BR><BR>Philip Taylor<BR><BR>
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