GNU bug report logs - #22429
Force character to be recognized as LTR inside RTL paragraph

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Filipe Moreira" <famoreira <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: famoreira <at> gmail.com
Cc: 22429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22429: Force character to be recognized as LTR inside RTL paragraph
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:24:14 +0200

> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:08:06 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 22429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The correct solution to these problems is to wrap the footnote block
> in the LRE..PDF or LRI..PDI control characters, so that the footnote
> is rendered independently of the surrounding bidirectional context.

Actually, LRM should also work, you just need to put it on both sides
of the footnote, like below:

\begin{hebrew}
  \pstart

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית‎\footnoteA{This is a Hebrew related footnote}‎ בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

  \pend
\end{hebrew}
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