I honestly don't think that screenshots are hugely useful in troubleshooting an issue like yours. An actual INDD file - a single paragraph with a single footnote that contained text not following its correct direction - would make figuring out how it's set up extremely easy. Without that, there's a bunch of guesswork as to what might be causing your text to misbehave.(Willi has already taken a shot at it - was he correct?)
So I've attached a file that has a functional English paragraph style with a functional Hebrew paragraph style:
- English paragraph style: World-Ready Composer, English language, Default direction
- Hebrew character style: Hebrew language, Default direction
That's really all it takes. We can't guess how your file is set up, but it's not like this. I suspect that you may have tried some local formatting - some text direction changes that are not captured in your paragraph or character style. You can check this by highlighting all of the text in a given paragraph and looking for the plus symbol next to the paragraph style name indicating an override. In the flyout menu of the Paragraph Styles panel, you can "Clear Overrides" which should remove any formatting not applied by the character or paragraph styles.
Success!
The problem I was having in my document is in the Paragraph Style: Footnote. I have 2 instances of this problem on 2 different pages. I had already done everything that was suggested and couldn't find the problem after several days. When I loaded the document today, yet again, I applied the World-Ready Paragraph Composer to the 2nd instance of Hebrew and it displayed correctly! Why? I went back and checked the 1st instance—which was the instance I had been working on this whole time—it still had the same wrong behavior. So there had to be something different between the two and I started comparing them to what Joel sent.
The 2nd instance where the WRPC worked perfectly, in the settings of the Paragraph Style: open the settings up with right click on Edit Footnote Text. On that first window, the top two drop down selection menus are: Based On and Next Style. The instance where it was working correctly, the first one, Based On, was set to No Paragraph Style, the same as the example Joel sent. The instance where it wasn't working was for some reason set to Basic Paragraph Style. Once I changed it to No Paragraph Style, it worked just fine! (screen shot attached in case another user needs it) I tested in another paragraph to be sure. I pasted the Hebrew, set the font to Adobe Hebrew, then applied the WRPC to the paragraph and it worked just fine.
A huge thank you to Willi, Dave and Joel!
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