[XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Oh, my bad.  I was working from dim memory of the past.  I wonder if LaTeX
changed its footnote handling somewhere along the line, or whether I'm just
wrong full stop.  Not interesting in the present context.
Best,
Dominik

On 8 October 2015 at 12:12, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 October 2015 at 17:53, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The original questioner said he was doing a critical edition.  If he's
> using
> > EDMAC or LEDMAC then perhaps I can note that EDMAC does some work to
> avoid
> > setting footnote text in "restricted horizontal mode".  Restricted
> > horizontal mode does a number of annoying things to text, including (I
> > think) things affecting hyphenation; Plain TeX goes to some lengths to
> set
> > footnotes in unrestricted mode.  But LaTeX doesn't bother with these
> > niceties.  However, EDMAC does.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dominik
> >
> > The attached fnfix.sty file fixes LaTeX footnotes so that they're set in
> > unrestricted horizontal mode.
> >
> >
>
> ??? both standard latex footnotes and the paragraphed footnotes used
> from footmisc in the original question use unrestricted horizontal
> mode, if you set them in an hbox (restricted hmode) they wouldn't work
> at all if longer than a line.
>
> The code posted allows catcode changes
>
> %   LaTeX style to redefine the \footnote command such that it allows the
> %   altering of catcodes.
> %   From: Joerg-Martin Schwarz <@MVS.GSI.DE:UPH508 at DDOHRZ11.BITNET>
> %   August 1992
>
>
> but that's unrelated (and by design not included in standard latex
> footnotes)
>
> David
>
>
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