> From: Fr. Michael Gilmary <frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org> > To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex@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 > > \renewcomman...@makefnmark}{% > \textsuperscript{\fnmarkfo...@thefnmark}} > > \renewcomma...@makefntext[1]{% > \makebox[1.8em][r]{\textsuperscript{\fnmarkfo...@thefnmark}}{#1}} > > \makeatother > > > It seems to get the same result. Do you know if this will result in other >undesired effects? > > > -- United in adoration of Jesus, > > > fr. michael gilmary, mma > > Most Holy Trinity Monastery > 67 Dugway Road > Petersham, MA 01366-9725 > > www.MaroniteMonks.org > >
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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