[XeTeX] Package geometry with XeTeX

[Musa Furber]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:18 AM, jeffdod at netzero.net wrote:

> After experimenting with this a great deal, I found that it is not
> specific to XeTeX. The problem occurs also with LaTeX. I rebuilt my
> scripts from the ground up, adding things one-at-a-time to see at what
> point the problem occurs. It seems that the problem is the "para"
> option to the "footmisc" package. All margins work perfectly with the
> geometry package until you turn on paragraph-style footnotes. At that
> point, many pages of output have footnotes that literally run off of
> the bottom of the page, and all pages have a top margin that is too  
> far
> down the page.

It might have to do with the nature of your notes. From what I  
remember, footmisc cannot break the page in the middle of a paragraph  
note, so if the last note on the page spans several lines you're  
going to have a problem.

CTAN has a version of footmisc newer than the the one included with  
gwTeX.

> I don't know enough about LaTeX/XeTeX to tell whether the problem  
> is in
> the geometry package or footmisc. Also, I tried other footnote  
> packages
> (manyfoot, etc.) and I tried manually setting my margins and setting
> them with the typearea package as well, with the same results.

Did you try doing it with the memoir document class, which will  
handle the geometry and footnotes?

> Is this simply an unsolvable problem? I will try to work up a very
> brief example that illustrates the problem, and then post it, although
> perhaps this is not the right place to post such a thing since the
> problem is not XeTeX specific.

Regards,
Musa