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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:02:58 -0500
> From: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
> Cc: 29759-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 2017-12-22 16:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I've removed that reference on the release branch.
> > ...
> > Thanks, pushed to the master branch.
> 
> Compare your response to that of libre-office[א]: no-fuss, completed in
> a few days, compared to a four-year drawn-out process involving too much
> educating.

I hope you like our process better ;-)

> > (Of course, to have Hebrew-style footnotes be rendered correctly,
> > starting at the left side of the window, one needs to either replace
> > the "Footnotes" header with something like "הערות שוליים", or insert a
> > newline after "Footnotes:".  But footnote.el doesn't yet support
> > localized headers.)
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean[ב]. Variable 'footnote-section-tag' can be set
> to a localized string, either by evaluation or through
> customize-variable.

Right, I missed that.  But then at least 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?

> 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.

Thanks.