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. > > -- > + > -----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Yannis Haralambous, Ph.D. [email protected] | > | Directeur d'Études http://omega.enstb.org/yannis | > | Tel. +33 (0)2.29.00.14.27 | > | Fax +33 (0)2.29.00.12.82 | > | Département Informatique | > | Télécom Bretagne | > | Technopôle de Brest Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France | > | Coordonnées Google-Earth : 48°21'31.57"N 4°34'16.76"W | > + > -----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > ...pour distinguer l'extérieur d'un > aquarium, > mieux vaut n'être pas poisson > > ...the ball I threw while playing in the park > has not yet reached the ground > > Es gab eine Zeit, wo ich nur ungern über Schubert > sprechen, > nur Nächtens den Bäumen und Sternen von ihm vorerzählen > mögen. > > > -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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