Hi, Again this has been partly discussed on the list and solutions were already there but I didn't see anyone mention the issue with figures. In the following MWE we have 20 pages of a simple text with a section, a footnote and a figure on each page. The page numbers and footnote numbers are fine. Section numbers need some care to appear correctly. I couldn't figure out a similar mechanism for figure numbers, though. The example does not use Indic numbers, which does not have any effect on the problem. \setupdirections[bidi=global,method=two] \setupalign[r2l] %% If we don't provide the numbercommand, we'll see reverse numbering starting from 10. \setuphead[chapter,title,section,subject][numbercommand=\righttoleft] %% The following does not accept any numbercommand but it has numberconversion. %% As a result figure numbers are shown in reverse. \setupcaptions[numberstopper={:}] %% Footnotes are fine and accept conversion. %% Page numbers are also okay. \starttext \dorecurse{20}{ \section{Test} This is a very simple text. And we have a footnote\footnote{Footnote text}. \placefigure [][] {Test figure.} {\centerline{FIGURE BODY}} \page } \stoptext I use TeXLive 2015 on Mac OS X, CONTEXT 2015.05.18 12:26, and LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238). Thanks a lot! —MHB