bug#29759: 25.2; "exciting footnote styles" promised, but unavailable

[Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>]

On 2017-12-25 18:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> ... the Hebrew styles should also automatically set that variable (and
> footnote-section-tag-regexp), don't you agree? Or do we envision
> someone using a Hebrew style, but writing predominantly LTR text for
> the footnotes themselves?

I see your point, and can only think of two reasons not to:

1] The user may have already customized the tag and its regexp for some
   other string for Hebrew documents (maybe something like  נ.ב.).

2] The user may have decided on a language neutral section tag, maybe a
   string of "=" or "━".

My guess, though, is that you're correct, because most emacs users who
write Hebrew footnotes will also be writing לע"ז and would welcome
the auto-switch. I'll let you make the final decision, and will code it
into the Hebrew functions.

> > What is annoying for me now is using RTL footnotes in an LTR
> > document, because the footnote section keeps bouncing between LTR
> > and RTL whenever emacs prompts me for word-completion candidates (I
> > think that would be 'company-mode').
>
> Sounds like a bug.  Company mode solves some tricky display issues, so
> maybe there's something there that doesn't work well with bidi.
> Please make a separate bug report, preferably starting from "emacs -Q"
> and loading the required add-on packages as needed.

I've been trying that now, but can't reproduce it in a clean `emacs -Q'.
The specific company mode is `company-dabbrev'. More homework ...

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