Re: more footnotes:-)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

> Dear partners in crime,
>
> I have come across a situation where, in a left-to-right document, I 
> need to make the footnotes operate right to left: that is, the 
> footnote numeral and rule should be on the right side of the page. Now 
> when using the global direction changes that eomega/Gamma offers, this 
> is trivial for a global right-to-left document (\pagedir TRT and 
> \bodydir TRT are the global settings), but in a globally left-to-right 
> document I have not been able to get this to work locally.
>
> To explain:
>
> \textdir TRT
>
> and
>
> \pardir TRT
>
> locally switch the text and paragraph directions respectively, but not 
> the footnote markers and rule. This is correct behavior of course. But 
> I have an article that includes a long right-to-left extract with 
> footnotes, and those footnotes need to be RL in the sense described 
> above (numeral + rule). Is there any way to add a parameter option to 
> \setupfoonotes which, between---say, a \start-\stop---that can locally 
> switch the location of the numeral and marker to RL?
>
> Please help: I'm supposed to send this thing to the printer next week:-))

i need a small example file for this 

Hans 

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