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