[luatex] a bidi package for LaTeX in LuaTeX

[Khaled Hosny]

That is the preferred method in Arabic (at least the books that I've
seen), all footnotes are aligned to right. So, I think this should be
configurable by the relevant package.

Regards,
 Khaled


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:08:51PM +0200, Yannis Haralambous wrote:
> I would rather say that the side on which the footnote appears does not 
> depend of the fact whether it is first or second, but on the dominant 
> language of the document. If the dominant language is Persian, all 
> footnotes start on the right, if it is French they start on the left.
>
> One could also consider changing the dominant language but this should  
> be done on the level of a whole page.
>
> Le 29 mars 09 à 17:00, وفا خلیقی a écrit :
>
>> More importantly notice the footnotes:
>>
>> - if the first footnote in a page is Persian, then the footnote rule  
>> should appear in the right hand side.
>>
>> - if the first footnote in a page is an English one, then the footnote 
>> rule should appear in the left hand side.
>>
>> That is the perfect rule for footnote in RTL, which bidi does not  
>> care.
>
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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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