[XeTeX] Footnote refs

[Meho R.]

> From: Fr. Michael Gilmary <FrMichaelGilmary at maronitemonks.org>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 22:19:51
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Footnote refs
> 
> Meho R. wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Indeed, it works. But why is there an \mbox in the first \renewcommand and a 
>\setlength with \noindent in the second \renewcommand?
> 
> If I simplify them both (throwing caution to the wind) and have
> 
> \makeatletter
> 
> \renewcommand{\@makefnmark}{%
> \textsuperscript{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}}
> 
> \renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
> \makebox[1.8em][r]{\textsuperscript{\fnmarkfont\@thefnmark}}{#1}}
> 
> \makeatother
> 
> 
> It seems to get the same result. Do you know if this will result in other 
>undesired effects?
> 
> 
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> 
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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 ;-)

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