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It works including the xltxtra package.

Thanks a lot!
amir

Hi all
I've used xelatex and fontspec.sty to use custom opentype fonts in latex documents. Everything seems to work except for the fact i don't see footnote symbols (like asterisk, dagger, etc.) using the command \thanks{} in the \title or \author fields.

Here's an example

\documentclass[12pt ...

Hi Joseph,

thanks, pdflatex works properly!

I was using latex to make the dvi file, and dvipdf to make dvi. The output of the pdf is always US letter. I can't check the dvi, as evince can't open dvi files, prompting this error:

Unable to open document
File type TeX DVI document (application/x-dvi ...

The problem occurs with every document.
For example, with this one:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

\begin{document}
\title{prova}
\author{Amir}
\date{\today}

\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\section{Capitolo di prova}
blablabla ...

Hi all,
this is my first post in this forum. I've searched this and other forums to solve this problem, but i could not find anything.
I'm using texlive on fedora 10, installed from the repositories.
I can't get latex to use the a4 paper size, neither with \documentclass, nor with the geometry.sty ...