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

3 Jan 2016

      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.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni 
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