<div dir="ltr"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2">I'm using the package polyglossia to typeset documents in Urdu, a right-to-left language. Polyglossia uses the bidi package whose documentation implies that the footnote rule is right-aligned when the footnote is in the middle of some </font><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2"><font>right-to-left </font></font><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2">text. But</font><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2"><font> the footnote rule is appearing aligned to the left anyway. </font></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2"><br>Here is an example:<br> <br>\documentclass{article}<br>\usepackage{polyglossia}<br>\setmainlanguage{urdu}<br>\newfontfamily\urdufont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.7]{Lateef}<br>
%\rightfootnoterule %force footnote rule to right<br>\begin{document}<br>افلاطون<br>\footnote{یونانی فلسفی}<br>\end{document}<br><br><br></font><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2"><font>Unless the commented statement is uncommented, the footnote rule shows up on the left.<br>
</font></font><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" size="2">Kamal Abdali<br></font></div>