Re: [NTG-context] Footnote rules for bidi document

On 1/3/2016 8:58 PM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote:

I just found out that \definenote[afootnote][rule={on,right}] instead of \definenote[afootnote][rule=right] works and places the footnote rule on the right-hand side.

Still wondering about how to get automatic right/left rules.

what do you mean with automatic ... the problem with mixed direction documents is that these things are part of the document design: dominant direction vs local direction and right now we don't have a clear model for that (if only because till now demands were always conflicting so what works as default for someone doesn't for someone else) (i can imagine some modules that set up things)

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni mailto:bateni@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

This has been previously discussed on the list but I didn't find a resolution to the issue. It might as well be my fault since I didn't go through the entire archive and I am needless to say new to CONTEXT.

In a bidi text (Persian/English in my case), I would like the footnote rule to be placed on the right-hand side if and only if the first line of the footnote text is RTL. Is there a way this information can be obtained within a user-defined rulecommand. Ideally I'd like a rule=autodir attribute for notes in addition to the current left & right.

Speaking of which, the left & right rules do not seem to work, or I misunderstand their point. When used (either left or right), the footnote rule disappears.

\starttext

\definenote[afootnote][paragraph=no,rule=right]

\startalignment[r2l] righttoleft text\afootnote{\input ward } \input tufte \stopalignment

\startalignment[l2r] lefttoright text\afootnote{\input ward} \input tufte \stopalignment

\stoptext

I see these defined in strc-not.mkvi http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob/HEAD:/tex/context/base/strc-not.mkvi and still don't work with "% macros=mkvi" in the first line of the input file and when the file has extension mkvi. Is this some issue of mkiv vs mkvi? For what it's worth, I don't notice a reference to MKVI in the compilation output.

Back to the main question, I can define my own rule as follows:

\unprotect \def\myfootrule{% \ifvmode \dontleavehmode \hskip.8\hsize\blackrule [\c!color=\noteparameter\c!rulecolor, \c!width=.2\hsize, \c!height=\noteparameter\c!rulethickness, \c!depth=\zeropoint]% \endgraf \kern\strutdepth \fi} \protect

Then I can use

\definenote[afootnote][paragraph=no,rule=command,rulecommand=\myfootrule]

to get a footnote rule on the right-hand side. If I can figure out whether the first line of the footnote text is RTL or LTR, an if-statement can do the trick I want.

Somewhat related to this, I was wondering whether it's possible to define two note commands, say \footnote and \afootnote, that use the same counter but are otherwise completely different.

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

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