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How can I indent the text of a footnote from the footnote mark rather than from the left page margin? I'm currently using this code to format my footnotes:

\usepackage[hang,norule,ragged]{footmisc}
\addtolength{\footskip}{0.5cm}
\setlength{\footnotemargin}{3.5mm}
\setlength{\footnotesep}{0cm ...

Thanks, Thorsten: that's absolutely perfect and does precisely what I want. Very kind of you.

I'm publishing a book with a publisher that requires this simple formatting for chapter titles:


Chapter number: 14pt, flush left on text line 2
0.5pt vertical rule x 2 picas centred between chapter number and chapter title in both directions
Chapter title: 14/19pt, indented 3 picas on text ...

Quick question: is there a way to get biblatex to set dates without 'st', 'th', or 'rd'? I'd like today's date to be set as '29 May 2010', but biblatex sets it as '29th May 2010'.

Isodate, which I run with the preamble command

\usepackage[UKenglish]{isodate}
\cleanlookdateon

happily prints ...

I use fontspec in XeTeX and everything is fine with a large range of ligatures available in various OpenType fonts, particularly Adobe OpenType Pro fonts. But I have a curious problem with some fonts, for example FF Scala and FF Quadraat (which aren't OpenType Pro).

The common ligatures for fi and ...