Text Formatting ⇒ footnote number format switches mid-page

[Ovadya]

Hi,

I encounter a strange error which is new to me: mid-page the footnote numbers turn from superscript to normalsize, both in the main text and in the footnotes. Worse still, there is no error message in the log.

There are also footnote numbers which have the first digit in superscript but the second in normalsize (?), or those with three digits, where the first two are correct. There are occasionally also footnotes entirely in superscript. I am absolutely baffled.

I am using XeLaTeX. The file has been processed numerous times before without this error. I made no significant changes to the text, cannot think of something I did to create this mess.

Any ideas?

[jocom]

Hi,

Welcome on this forum.

If you don't provide any code we can't help.
Please give a MWE. Then we can examine it and see where it goes wrong.

jocom

[Ovadya]

I just found the reason. Looking at the preamble, I realised I'd added the xltxtra package (to typeset the logo of XeLaTeX). Removing that package resolved the problem.

[localghost]

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Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[frabjous]

If you want to keep the XeLaTeX logo but avoid this problem, load the package like this:

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\usepackage[no-sscript]{xltxtra}

Without that option, xltxtra tries to use special Unicode characters for sub- and superscripts. However, only certain fonts have all of these characters, and if the font you're using does not (--yours apparently has some of them but not all of them--), you'll see the problem you reported.