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.