[XeTeX] It works! (was Re: \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...)

[Ron Aaron]

On Monday 02 August 2010 04:28:43 Vafa Khalighi wrote:
> ... I wanted automatic footnote rule in bidi; if the first
> footnote rule in a page was a RTL footnote, then the footnote rule in that
> page should appear on the right hand side...

It sounds like you could have used marks as well -- simply indicate the direction of the first footnote in the "firstmark" mark.  If you use marks as I do to store footnote number ranges, you could add 10,000 (say) to the number to indicate RTL vs LTR.  Then you wouldn't have to do complex post-processing.  But you probably have other considerations.

Persian is also much more complex to properly typeset than Hebrew is, though properly placing vowel points is not trivial (and since I am doing a translation, the source text is pointed).  But because it is a translation, I only have English footnotes (which may include Hebrew in-line, but that's trivial) -- and this is indeed much simpler than your problem.

> My approach was to maintain a list the ht+dp of footnotes inserted and the
> resolved direction of that footnote. 

How did you maintain such a list?   I am looking for good ways to do more complex data storage under TeX.


Best regards,
Ron

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