Re: footnotes when using RtL (Arabic)

[Talal Al-Azem <talazem@fastmail.fm>]

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Hello Hans,

> I have no clue what you want/need/.

Take a look at the files attached. In the text:

1. The first afootnote is: 		* Hickory dickory dock.
2. The second afootnote is: 	† The mouse ran up the clock.
3. The third afootnote is: 		‡ The clock struck one the mouse fell down.

Now, in the apparatus: the order should be the same, but from right to left. So, reading from the right-to-left in the apparatus, it should read:

.nwod llef esuom eht eno kcurts kcolc ehT ‡ .kcolc eht pu nar esuom ehT † .kcod yrokcid yrokciH ∗

Which is the opposite of how it reads now. This is important for critical editions in Arabic (or other RtL languages) in which we are going to be dealing with the lemmas and variants.

Does this make it a bit clearer?

Kind regards,
Talal
 

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\showframe

\definenote[afootnote][numberconversion=set 2,paragraph=yes,rule=right,align=r2l]
\setupdescriptions[afootnote][display=no,location=serried,distance=.5em]

\startalignment[l2r]
Old king cole.\footnote{This is footnote one.}
Was a merry old soul.\afootnote{Hickory dickory dock.}
And a merry old soul was he.\footnote{This is footnote two.}
\stopalignment

\startalignment[r2l]
Testing.\footnote{This is footnote three. How do I get it to be like footnotes 1 and 2?}
Testing testing.\afootnote{The mouse ran up the clock.}
Testing testing testing.\afootnote{The clock struck one the mouse fell down.}
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