I have an English paragraph with a right-to-left Hebrew phrase in the middle of the paragraph with a footnote referring to a word within that Hebrew phrase.
Should the footnote be positioned at the beginning of the Hebrew word or at the end?
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I have an English paragraph with a right-to-left Hebrew phrase in the middle of the paragraph with a footnote referring to a word within that Hebrew phrase.
Should the footnote be positioned at the beginning of the Hebrew word or at the end?
Best Answer
Well, first of all, you'll definitely put the
\footnote{}
command after your right-to-left phrase - it doesn't make sense otherwise. But then, you still have (at least) three options:immediately after the actual phrase.
Here are screenshots with the output of all three approaches. It seems to me that the 3rd option is what you would want, but I can't categorically declare it to be superior.
(The body of the page:)
(The footnote area:)
And here's the code: