Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> I have no time to look deep into it but does anybody know what is the > definition of \- if these packages is used? Isn't is possible that it is > a fragile macro? I remember one thing from Phil Taylor's tutorial held > on EuroTeX'92 in Prague. He said that the most frequent error is wrong > timing of expansion. Is it possible that \- is redefined in such a way > that it disappears somewhere during expansion of \footnote before t is > typeset? More than possible :-( Why /does/ LaTeX have to meddle so ?! \-::macro:->\x@protect \-\protect \- Try : % !TeX Program=XeLaTeX \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[para]{footmisc} \begin{document} \def \-{\discretionary {}{}{}} \footnote{XXXXXXXXXXXXXX just a few normal words to fill up the line up to my x x x hy\-phe\-n\nobreak a\-te\-me } \end{document} ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex