From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 14:33:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: mdwtools.tex: Fix spacing of footnote markers in the document title.
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/mdwtools/commitdiff_plain/f06ea12564f3789094c40f959ffd6f5243d98e07

mdwtools.tex: Fix spacing of footnote markers in the document title.

The default document classes, and, separately, the `doc' package,
arrange for `\maketitle' to set footnote markers without taking up
horizontal space.  Apparently, if you have author names with
affiliations in footnotes, then the footnote marker shifts the names
visually off-centre.

We don't have this problem here, so turn that off, and remove the
compensatory `\space' following the marker.
---

diff --git a/mdwtools.tex b/mdwtools.tex
index bf5ac76..e192d13 100644
--- a/mdwtools.tex
+++ b/mdwtools.tex
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 %</mdwtools>
 % \end{meta-comment}
 %
-% \CheckSum{672}
+% \CheckSum{679}
 %% \CharacterTable
 %%  {Upper-case    \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z
 %%   Lower-case    \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@
       \protect\footnote{%
         The \protect#2{##1} #3 is currently at version %
         \mdwfileinfo{##1}{version}, dated \mdwfileinfo{##1}{date}.%
-      }\space%
+      }%
     }%
 %    \end{macrocode}
 %
@@ -1074,13 +1074,29 @@
 % following hacking will do this.
 %
 %    \begin{macrocode}
-  \edef\next{\endgroup\noexpand\title{\mdw@title}}%
+  \edef\next{\endgroup\noexpand\title{\noexpand\mdw@titlehack\mdw@title}}%
   \next%
 }
 %    \end{macrocode}
 %
 % \end{macro}
 %
+% \begin{macro}{\mdw@titlehack}
+%
+% Wait!  Did you notice that |\mdw@titlehack|?  What's that about?
+%
+% It turns out that the default document classes hack the footnote insertion
+% commands to make footnote symbols take up no horizontal space in the title.
+% Apparently this makes author names look as if they're centred properly when
+% there are affiliation footnotes.  Anyway, \package{doc} perpetuates this
+% silliness, but it makes a mess of the version markers I insert, so I must
+% deploy countermeasures.
+%
+%    \begin{macrocode}
+\def\mdw@titlehack{\def\@makefnmark{$\m@th^{\@thefnmark}$}}
+%    \end{macrocode}
+%
+% \end{macro}
 %
 % \subsection{Starting the main document}
 %