In the manual of reledmac
there are, on page 32, subsubsection 6.5.2, some remarks about customising the footnote marks of familiar footnotes, but it seems to me not clear how to use this instruction to achieve a different appearance of the footnote marks.
Does anyone know something about this matter?
I would like to put an Arabic text facing its translation into German, thereby using two layers of familiar footnotes, one referring to the translation and the other to the original text. The footnotes referring to the LTR text are LTR and those referring to the RTL text are RTL.
Now, I would like to have the first layer, \footnoteA
, with footnote marks in Arabic numerals and brackets around, and the second layer, \footnoteB
, with alphabetic characters in Arabic and also brackets around.
I have tried a kind of "solution" which at least puts brackets around the alphabetic footnote marks in the \footnoteB
layer at the bottom of the page, but the remaining features I could not achieve.
This is a MWE
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{polyglossiasetspace}
\usepackage[series={A,B},nocritical,noend]{reledmac}
\usepackage{reledpar}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[spelling=old,babelshorthands=true]{german}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Renderer=ICU]{Charis SIL}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\newfontfamily\englishfont[Mapping=tex-text,Renderer=ICU]{Charis SIL}
\setotherlanguage{arabic}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.4]{Scheherazade}
\linenumincrement*{2}
\firstlinenum*{1}
\setlength{\Lcolwidth}{0.5\textwidth}
\setlength{\Rcolwidth}{0.4\textwidth}
\newcommand{
\فب
}[1]{\footnoteB{\hspace{1ex}#1}}
%\renewcommand*{\thefootnoteB}{\alph{footnoteB}}
\bhooknoteX{\renewcommand{\thefootnoteB}{\textarabic{(\alph{footnoteB})}}}
%\bhooknoteX{\renewcommand{\bodyfootmarkB}{\textarabic{(\alph{footnoteB})}}}
\begin{document}
%\numberlinefalse
\AtBeginPairs{\sloppy}
\begin{pairs}
\begin{Rightside}
\begin{RTL}
\begin{Arabic}
\begin{spacing}{2}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
نحمدك اللهمّ على نعم يؤذن الحمد بازديادها، ونصلي على نبيك محمد هادي الأمة\فب{يعني أمة محمد.} لرشادها
\pend
\endnumbering
\end{spacing}
\end{Arabic}
\end{RTL}
\end{Rightside}
\begin{Leftside}
\begin{german}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
\noindent
Wir preisen dich, Gott, für Gnadengaben, deren Lobpreis von ihrem\footnoteA{\hspace{1ex}D.h. der Gnadengaben} Anwachsen kündet, und wir bitten um Segen für deinen Propheten Muḥammad, der die Gemeinde auf den rechten Weg führt.
\pend
\endnumbering
\end{german}
\end{Leftside}
\end{pairs}
\Columns
\end{document}