Open pharos-alexandria opened 7 years ago
You must use
\bhookgroupX{\LTR}
which is called before footnote are outputed
Thank you very much! I missed this in the manual scanning for mentioned RTL/LTR-caveats...
is there a caveat? I didn't remember…
It is several times mentioned that if you have setups like mine you should do this or that. And that's why I thought that \beforeinsertingX[A]{\LTR}
will do what I want. It's in 7.10 (p. 44)
ah, yeh, I understand. p. 44 explanation is if you called your LTR footnote inside a RTL texte. That is not your case.
You problem, here, is that you have a right RTL columns. So when XeTeX typeset the footnote, it is in RTL mode.
I think a caveat could be nice, but we have so many possibilities, that I don't know in which order presenting them.
Maybe @ralessi have an opinion…
Thanks anyway for the fast response – so to speak my personal manual...!
As I am so to speak barging into this thread, I may have missed some points. Basically, in Arabic you have to ways of building up a critical edition: either all in Arabic, with an apparatus that has to be RTL as well, or—as we usually do in Western countries—with an apparatus that has to be LTR. This is why, in my opinion, both ways must be available. As for Syriac texts, only the latter makes sense.
Of course, these personal remarks are based on my own experience and my own interests.
maybe we could add section in the handbook about it with this two types of typesetting, and explanation for both XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, and we could complete if other case happen
My edition is mostly Greek and Latin with one Syriac text, and this was/is my first time to handle such a case. Otherwise I have Syriac only in the critical apparatus. And it would surely most helpful, if there could be a section in the handbook. But I fear I would not be able to write this, but I volunteer for giving feedback.
yeh I need to take time… but with my PhD to finish and the teachin to prepare, not obvious
All the best for finishing the PhD!
I have a two-column setup with German text in the left column and Syriac text in the right column. In the german text I have regular footnotes (footnoteA) and I use
\beforeinsertingX[A]{\LTR}
. If the text is only one paragraph and no pagebreak is involved, everything works as it should. But if the text is longer than one page, the footnoteAs are printed RTL instead of LTR.This is my minimal example: