General ⇒ French-style footnote markers

[AleCes]

You can easily find that out by trying yourself. Don't forget to wrap the code by \makeatletter and \makeatother when adding it to your preamble. If you get errors, you are sure that there is something missing.

Will you believe me if I tell you it just doesn't work? Neither the complete code, nor when I tried the quick and dirty way:

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\makeatletter
\newdimen\parindentFFN
\parindentFFN=10in
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
\parindentFFN\@thefnmark.~#1}
\makeatother

Since what I'm missing here is indentation, I thought of replacing \parindentFFN with \noindent of the previous example. Unfortunately, that too didn't work.

[AleCes]

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! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again> 
                   \unhbox 

That's the error message I get.

[localghost]

My efforts came to nothing. I suggest to contact the maintainer of the polyglossia package and ask for advice.

[AleCes]

I've already done so before, after you advised me to contact him. He told me he "no longer has time to devote to polyglossia".

[AleCes]

OK, this topic can be considered as SOLVED.
I got help from the XeTeX mailing list. Voilà the magic code:

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\makeatletter
\long\def\@makefntext#1{%
  \noindent
  \makebox[20pt][r]{\@thefnmark.\,}#1%
}
\makeatother