Page Layout ⇒ Turn off French Footnote Style

[exploded_funk]

I'm using the babel package for a French thesis. But this affects the style of footnotes. It gives me footnote markers that are superscript in the main text and not superscript, followed by a point and a space, in the footnote text. How can I change them to superscript markers with no point and no space? I also want to indent the whole footnote text, either to match the paragraph indent of the body text or to have no indent at all.

I have no relevant commands in the preamble, so I guess that I use the defaults here. I have tried this.

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\footmarkstyle{\textsuperscript{#1}}

But it has no effect. I have also tried this

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\renewcommand\thefootnote{\textsuperscript{\arabic{footnote}}}

It gives me superscript markers of very small size, followed by point and space. I forgot to mention that I'm using the book memoir class.

[localghost]

For an adequate problem description it is suggestive to add a minimal example to your question that is compilable as provided. Possible solutions are then easier to test and helpers don't need to build a complete document on their own. This increases your chance for good and fast answers significantly.

The babel manual contains with Section 29 a long passage with quite detailed descriptions of what the package does with the French language enabled and how to alter these settings. It suggests the \frenchbsetup command to modify the concerned settings.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,frenchb]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputMappings{
  aacute={á},
  ccedilla={ç},
  Euro={€}
}
\usepackage{babel}
\frenchbsetup{
  FrenchFootnotes=false,
  AutoSpaceFootnotes=false
}  

\begin{document}
  Main text\footnote{Footnote}
\end{document}

Further modifications to the footnotes can be done by the footmisc package and presumably by means of the memoir class itself.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[exploded_funk]

Thanks a lot for your answer. I think it works. The manual also refers to the command \StandardFootnotes.