Re: [NTG-context] parenthesis in Arabic text

17 May 2015


      On 2015-05-17 12:20, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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Am 17.05.2015 um 00:58 schrieb Sam Ḥilluc :
Greetings,
I'm trying to typeset an Arabic text, but I have a problem with parenthesis in
footnotes. The following example:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[amiri][features=arabic,range=arabic]
   \setupdirections[bidi=global]
   \setupalign[righttoleft]
\def\text{(ب)}
\startdocument
   \text\footnote{\text}.
   \stopdocument
gives the correct order in the text but the parenthesis are not adapted in the
footnote.
So in the text I get: (ب)
And in the footnote: )ب(.
You have to set the bidi settings again for the footnotes because
the notes mechanism resets many of these setups.
\startsetups[note:footnote]
  \setupdirections[bidi=global]
\stopsetups
\setupnote[footnote][setups=note:footnote] % align=righttoleft
Wolfgang
Works perfectly, thanks.