with bidi, you have three kind of footnotes \footnote, \LTRfootnote and \RTLfootnotes and they all work in longtable. I am not sure about manyfoot package but if you only need paragraph footnotes do not load manyfoot package instead load bidi package with extrafootnotefeatures option.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Jens Bakker <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Arthur Reutenauer, > > Thank you very much for your advice and your valuable informations. > > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I would like to proceed to you also with another problem connected with > longtable and Arabic, please. After using bidi-longtable successfully, I > wanted to insert a footnote defined by manyfoot into the table and > therefore I ended the longtable after the line with the footnote and > started a new one immediately after the first. But this second longtable > has another appearance despite the fact that it has the same defined > dimension. Has anybody a remedy? > > The files are attached. > > With best wishes and best regards, > Jens Bakker > > > > > > > > Am 30.04.2013 um 14:57 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > > >> I am really sorry, I forgot to attach the files! Here they are: > > > > And I'm sorry too, because I didn't notice your second message ;-) > > Next time, if you could reply to yourself, that would make it easier to > > follow the thread. > > > > Anyway, your problem is addressed at section 3.1 of the documentation: > > > > For typesetting RTL tables with longtable package, an > > experimental package, bidi-longtable package, is provided. > > bidi-longtable package should be loaded after longtable package. > > > > I suppose longtable posed special challenges that needed to be > > addressed by a separate package. And since bidi seems to protest when > > you load longtable after itself, the order you should load the packages > > seems to be: > > > > \usepackage{longtable} > > \usepackage{bidi} > > \usepackage{bidi-longtable} > > > >> P.S.: Strange enough, the English words "Titel" and "Page" are set > correctly LTR without defining a Latin language in the preamble. > > > > No, I'm guessing that's an artefact of how XeTeX works: back in the > > times when it was using ICU, it would ship entire words to be shaped, > > and then inserted back into the flow; and the shaping engine knows the > > directionality of the different characters. Presumably that same > > behaviour has been retained with HarfBuzz; however I'll let Khaled > > comment on that, as I haven't looked at the code. > > > > Arthur > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > -- Sincerely yours, Persian TeX Group
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