Re: [NTG-context] bidi in footnotes

21 Jun 2018

      I believe, you would need the setups, even if you had set up typescripts.
For some reason, the environments for footnotes and marginnotes are
different from that of the main content's.

I got this solution from Wolfgang/Hans two years ago, so I suppose it's the
officially recommended way.

I do not know how heavy setupdirections is, but this method, I guess,
applies that command *once per page*.  It might be too much, but it's the
price you pay for correct bidi formatting.  For example, I hate to see that
I need to babysit page numbers (LTR) within Farsi text (RTL) in headers but
that's life.

‪On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 8:22 AM ‫Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد‬‎ <
Idris.Hamid@colostate.edu> wrote:‬
...
Salaam, Mohammad Hossein, Otared,
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:27:56 -0600, Mohammad Hossein Bateni
 wrote:
...
\startsetups[bidi:footnotes]
\setupdirections[bidi=on]
\stopsetups
\setupnotes[footnote][setups=bidi:footnotes]
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:31:05 -0600, Otared Kavian 
wrote:
...
%%%%% begin test-bidi-footnote.tex
\setupdirections[bidi=global]
\startsetups[bidi:footnotes]
\setupdirections[bidi=on]
\definedfont[file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 14pt]
\stopsetups
\setupnotes[footnote][setups=bidi:footnotes]
\starttext
\definedfont[file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 14pt]
Test امتحان test
\startfootnote
Test امتحان test
\stopfootnote{}
\stoptext
%%%%% end test-bidi-footnote.tex
Many thanks. Question: Is this use of setups now the "official" or
preferred way to handle footnote typography options? On the surface, it
appears to be overkill. For the declaration
\setupdirections[bidi=global]
shouldn't that mean that bidi is applied, well, globally?
For \definedfont the behavior is less surprising, since that is obviously
a local command. But is setups the official way to globalize the command
(aside from typescripts or simplefonts)?
Best wishes
Idris
...
...
On 20 Jun 2018, at 23:22, ⁨Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد⁩
<⁨Idris.Hamid@colostate.edu⁩> wrote:
Dear gang,
In the attached/following example, bidi is not applied in the footnote:
\setupdirections[bidi=global]
\starttext
\definedfont[file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 14pt]
Test امتحان test
\startfootnote
\definedfont[file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 14pt]
Test امتحان test
\stopfootnote{}
\stoptext
Is there something else that I need to do? Thanks in advance!
[Also: Is there a way to not have to declare \definedfont twice?]
--
Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80512
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