[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

[Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Alessandro Ceschini wrote:
>> As I wrote:  "look in frenchb.ldf to find the french settings." The
>> definition of \@makefntext above is a simple example. Adjust it to
>> your need.
>>      
> Since what I'm lacking here is indentation I tried to put together the
> following collage by pasting a piece of code from frenchb.ldf.
>
> \makeatletter
> \newdimen\parindentFFN
> \parindentFFN=10in
> \renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
> \parindentFFN\@thefnmark.~#1}
> \makeatother
>
> But I get the following error message:
>
> ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
> <to be read again>
>                     \unhbox
>
> Anyone knows why it doesn't work?
>    
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 ?

Philip Taylor