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
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> 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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