Text Formatting ⇒ Footnote number not showing as superscript

[adnaniut]

In my thesis I need to include number of footnotes. But the numbers are not showing as superscript at the bottom of page, rather showing inline with text. Here is the code I am using:

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Sections of this chapter\footnote{reference a}$^{,}$\footnote{reference b} discusses blahblah.

It writes at the bottom of the page as
1reference a
2reference b

I want them to display as
^1 reference a
^2 reference b

Any help would be much appreciated

[cgnieder]

Since what you want is the standard behaviour this means something in your document changes it. So we need to see a minimal working example in order to propose a solution.

Regards

[adnaniut]

Thanks for your quick reply. Here is an example of my script

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}

\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}
\DefineFNsymbols{blank}[text]{} \setfnsymbol{blank}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
    {\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\@thefnmark}#1}

\begin{document}
In this chapter\footnote{reference a}$^{,}$\footnote{reference a} we want to show footnote as superscript, not inline with text.

\end{document}

[cgnieder]

But you defined them not be be superscripted:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
    {\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\@thefnmark}#1}

By adjusting this definition or removing it completely you should get what you want. By the way: you don't need to add a superscripted comma manually, footmisc's option multiple will take care of that for you:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
    {\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\textsuperscript{\@thefnmark}\,}#1}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
In this chapter\footnote{reference a}\footnote{reference b} we want to show footnote as superscript, not inline with text.

\end{document}

Regards

[adnaniut]

Thank you very much. It solved the problem.

But you defined them not be be superscripted:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
    {\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\@thefnmark}#1}

By adjusting this definition of removing it completely you should get what you want. By the way: you don't need to add a superscripted comma manually, footmisc's option multiple will take care of that for you:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]%
    {\noindent\makebox[0pt][r]{\textsuperscript{\@thefnmark}\,}#1}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
In this chapter\footnote{reference a}\footnote{reference b} we want to show footnote as superscript, not inline with text.

\end{document}

Regards