I can't take time to absorb that, but it looks as if it wants to force the
indentation at the start of a footnote to be 1.5em, which ought to be OK
(rather more than I would have, but no matter just now).
Just before the first line of your text (after you've loaded all your
packages and so on), try
\global\parindentFFN=1.5em
and see what happens. Whatever is going on, it looks as if with your
current coding the program is attempting to put a giant amount of space
(surely wider than your actual text width) before the footnote cue, and that
is creating chaos.
If that is no good, I think I'll have to bow out of this thread - sorry!
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alessandro Ceschini" <alessandroceschini...@gmail.com>
To: "Customizing footnote markers" <xetex@tug.org>
Sent: 05 June 2011 17:25
Subject: [XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers
To be honest, I wouldn't worry about the \makeatletter nonsense; it
really
isn't at the heart of your problem. If you are getting an \hbox that
is
overfull
by over 381pt (5.27"), the numbers have all but disappeared, and the
text
appears to be cut, then John Was's suggestion that an indentation of
ten
inches might not have been what you intended may well be the cause.
My source is frenchb.ldf!
Please take a look at this piece of code from frenchb.ldf dealing with
footnotes:
\newcommand*{\dotFFN}{.}
\newcommand*{\kernFFN}{\kern .5em}
\newdimen\parindentFFN
\parindentFFN=10in
\def\ftnISsymbol{\@fnsymbol\c@footnote}
\long\def\@makefntextFB#1{\ifx\thefootnote\ftnISsymbol
\@makefntextORI{#1}%
\else
\parindent=\parindentFFN
\rule\z@\footnotesep
\setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{\@thefnmark}%
\ifdim\wd\@tempboxa>\z@
\llap{\@thefnmark}\dotFFN\kernFFN
\fi #1
\fi}%
\AtBeginDocument{\@ifpackageloaded{bigfoot}{}%
{\ifdim\parindentFFN<10in
\else
\parindentFFN=\parindent
\ifdim\parindentFFN<1.5em\parindentFFN=1.5em\fi
\fi
\let\@makefntextORI\@makefntext
\long\def\@makefntext#1{%
\ifFBFrenchFootnotes
\@makefntextFB{#1}%
\else
\@makefntextORI{#1}%
\fi}%
}%
}
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Alessandro Ceschini
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