I’ve run into a hiccup. In the previous MWE that worked with Woflgang and Hans’ patch, the notes were footnotes. However, if make them into linenotes, we run into a strange problem: the first note is typeset correctly, but all the remaining linenotes in that stream are typeset on the bottom left corner of the page. See attached files.
Best wishes, Talal
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> On 31 Jul 2015, at 12:07, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote:
>
> Excellent. This seems to solve the problem completely. I even tried mixing
> Arabic and English text in the RTL footnotes, switched on the
> “alternative=serried” option, and defined my own custom note streams —
> everything worked very well. The only thing that didn’t work is to mix, in
> the same stream, footnotes that are LTR with footnotes that are RTL. But I
> did not expect this to work, and I cannot think of a real world scenario in
> which such footnotes would/should be mixed in the same stream.
>
> Attached are both the .tex file and the PDF with a perfectly working example.
> Many thanks to you both, Wolfgang and Hans. Hans, I assume we’ll know if the
> patch eventually makes it into a beta?
>
> Best,
> Talal
>
> <RTL-paragraphed-footnotes.tex><RTL-paragraphed-footnotes.pdf>
>
>> On 31 Jul 2015, at 09:39, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/31/2015 1:51 AM, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote:
>>> You’re right. The patch gets us half way to the desired behaviour
>>> (namely, correct ordering of the footnotes within the paragraph). But it
>>> seems that the ‘paragraph’ option doesn’t play well with RTL generally,
>>> resulting in the second note disappearing when using
>>> \startsetups[note:footnote] \setupdirections[bidi=global] \stopsetups.
>>
>> can you try
>>
>> \unprotect
>>
>> \unexpanded\def\leftorrightvbox{\ifconditional\displaylefttoright\expandafter\lefttorightvbox\else\expandafter\righttoleftvbox\fi}
>>
>> \def\strc_notes_flush_global
>> {\begingroup
>> \useinterlinespaceparameter\noteparameter
>> \doifelse{\noteparameter\c!paragraph}\v!yes
>> {\leftorrightvbox
>> {\starthboxestohbox
>> \iftrialtypesetting\unvcopy\else\unvbox\fi\currentnoteinsertionnumber
>> \stophboxestohbox}}
>> {\iftrialtypesetting\unvcopied\else\unvboxed\fi\currentnoteinsertionnumber}%
>> \endgroup}
>>
>> \protect
>>
>>
>>>> On 30 Jul 2015, at 20:04, Wolfgang Schuster
>>>> <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com <mailto:schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> tala...@fastmail.fm <mailto:tala...@fastmail.fm>
>>>>> 30. Juli 2015 20:37
>>>>> I’ve come across a snag. When using parentheses in Arabic footnotes, they
>>>>> are flipped. In any earlier email
>>>>> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/91501/match=setupdirections+bidi+global),
>>>>> you had advised adding the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>> \startsetups[note:footnote]
>>>>>> \setupdirections[bidi=global]
>>>>>> \stopsetups
>>>>>>
>>>>>> \setupnote[footnote][setups=note:footnote] % align=righttoleft
>>>>> However, if one does this with your patch, the second footnote gets
>>>>> dropped. Here is the MWE:
>>>>>
>>>> The second note disappears even without the patch, the problem this
>>>> the paragraph option for the notes.
>>>>
>>>> Wolfgang
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