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by hpcalc
Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:14 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: XeLaTeX | Arabic Footnotes in Superscript with certain Fonts
Replies: 1
Views: 3722

XeLaTeX | Arabic Footnotes in Superscript with certain Fonts

It seems that the following definition of \thefootnote forces xelatex to use superscript (and italic) arabic footnotes in proper font:

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% old definition
%\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{{\it \arabic{footnote}}}

% new definition
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{$^{\it \arabic{footnote}}$}
by hpcalc
Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:01 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: XeLaTeX | Accents with different Fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 7481

XeLaTeX | Accents with different Fonts

In my text I am using a lot of characters with accents, which should be easily composed in LaTeX. This seems to be dependent on specific fonts, at least when using xelatex in MiKTeX 2.9. In particular, in many fonts I cannot compose the accent over space \'{} and in some fonts (mostly professional ...
by hpcalc
Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:55 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: XeLaTeX | Arabic Footnotes in Superscript with certain Fonts
Replies: 1
Views: 3722

XeLaTeX | Arabic Footnotes in Superscript with certain Fonts

I am using arabic footnotes in my text. When trying out how the text would look like with different fonts, I've discovered that some of them don't format arabic footnotes in superscript. Here is an example (I'm using xelatex from MiKTeX 2.9 because I don't want to do special installations for all ...