[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

[Alessandro Ceschini]

> As I wrote:  "look in frenchb.ldf to find the french settings." The
> definition of \@makefntext above is a simple example. Adjust it to
> your need.

Since what I'm lacking here is indentation I tried to put together the
following collage by pasting a piece of code from frenchb.ldf.

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

But I get the following error message:

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

Anyone knows why it doesn't work?

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                          Alessandro Ceschini