> Mohammad Hossein Bateni <mailto:bateni@gmail.com>
> 19. Januar 2016 um 12:16
> That should work for Ibn Saeed, but it's not a complete solution.  For 
> example it does not work if one wants to write "page x of y" instead, 
> with "page" and "y" written in Arabic/Persian.  Then the text of the 
> header is partly LTR and part RTL.
>
> This is still simple and I can use my hacky solution and mix 
> \lefttoright and \righttoleft to get it right.  But is it possible to 
> extend the \setupdirections[bidi=on] to apply to parts other than the 
> main text?  I just noticed this does not apply to footnotes either.  
> Having numbers in the TRL footnote text produces incorrect typesetting.
ConTeXt resets many settings for headers, footers, footnotes etc. and 
have to set them again for these elements.

To apply the bidi setting to footnotes you have to add

\startsetups[bidi:footnotes]
   \setupdirection[bidi=on]
\stopsetups

\setupnotes[footnote][setups=bidi:footnotes]

to your document.

Wolfgang