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Whether I use the french language with babel or polyglossia, irrespective of the engine, the back references for the footnotes are missed.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ifpdf,ifxetex,ifluatex}

\ifluatex
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}
\setmainfont{GentiumPlus}
\newfontfamily\greekfont{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\russianfont{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\hindifont{Siddhanta}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{french}
%\setmainlanguage{english}
%\setmainlanguage{czech}
%\setmainlanguage{greek}
%\setmainlanguage{russian}
%\setmainlanguage{german}
%\setmainlanguage{hindi}
%\setotherlanguage{english}
\else

\ifxetex
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}
%\setmainfont{GentiumPlus}
%\newfontfamily\greekfont{Linux Libertine O}
%\newfontfamily\russianfont{Linux Libertine O}
%\newfontfamily\hindifont{Siddhanta}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
%\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
%\setotherlanguage{czech}
%\setotherlanguage{german}
%\setotherlanguage{greek}
%\setotherlanguage{russian}
%\setotherlanguage{hindi}
%\setotherlanguage{english}


%\usepackage[french]{babel}
%\usepackage[babel,french=quotes]{csquotes}
\else

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[french=quotes]{csquotes}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\fi\fi

\usepackage{footnotebackref}
\begin{document}
Some text with a footnote\footnote{The first footnote.}\\
Text with the second footnote\footnote[4]{The second footnote.}
\end{document}
user1283885
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1 Answers1

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Both babel and polyglossia redefine footnote macros at the beginning of the document, and so undo the changes made by footnotebackref. For babel this can be turned off, with the command \StandardFootnotes but not for polyglossia. Since babel works fine with XeTeX and LuaTeX, for most European languages, you should just use babel and not polyglossia.

However, if you want the footnote formatting that babel provides to work with footnotebackref much more work will be needed, since that package has not been made babel aware.

Your question would have probably received an answer earlier if the example code had not had so much irrelevant stuff in it. Here's a minimal example that works.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[french]{babel} 
\StandardFootnotes


\usepackage{footnotebackref}

\begin{document}
Some text with a footnote\footnote{The first footnote.}

Text with the second footnote\footnote[4]{The second footnote.}
\end{document}
Alan Munn
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