Re: [NTG-context] footnotes when using RtL (Arabic)

31 Jul 2015

      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  wrote:
On 7/31/2015 1:51 AM, talazem@fastmail.fm wrote:
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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
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On 30 Jul 2015, at 20:04, Wolfgang Schuster
mailto:schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
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talazem@fastmail.fm mailto:talazem@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+...), you had advised adding the following:
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\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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Re: [NTG-context] footnotes when using RtL (Arabic)

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