Re: footnotes and X

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Horacio Suarez wrote:

> maybe I´m repeatin this mail.
>
> The name of this caracter "¿" is questiondown, and
>
> \questiondown
>
> works, but
>
> \enableregime[utf]
>
> doesn´t. Simply no character is shown.


Did you configure your editor to save the file in utf-8 encoding?

You can also try \enableregime[latin1] which might be sufficient for 
your needs.


>> > I have another problem. It´s a two column document. In a page, the first
>> > column is overlaping a footnote. Column balance is on.
>> 
>> Do you use start stop columns or columnsets?
>
> I use start stop columns. I´ve fix it with a \blank at the end of the 
> footnote but not perfectly.
> Maybe adding some space before the footnote can fix it better.
>
> Can that be made whit \setupfootnotes ?
>
> I´ve tryed
>
> \setupfootnotes[before=\blank]

Change the amount of blank

\setupfootnotes[before={\blank[big]}] or \blank[1cm] etc.

Aditya