INDD footnotes shenanigans. Numbers showing after footnotes

Question

My footnotes are putting the footnotes' reference numbers at the end of the footnote line instead of at the beginning. For example,

instead of:

1 First footnote.

It is doing:

First footnote. 1

How do I fix this? I've played everywhich way with the composer settings, I even downloaded and tried fixing it using the Hebrew/ME version of INDD...adjusting the right to left and left to right. Also looked at styles, footnotes options, even found a js that forced the doc to the proper composer. Nothing is fixing this annoying issue... so far.

The reference number in the body text is good as is the reference in the footnote, but I can't help but thinking that I am missing something obvious.

Latest INDD version on a Windows 11 machine

Ideas are appreciated.
Meanwhile, will start a new doc to see if mine is simply corrupted. Should have probably tried that an hour ago. lol

Thanks,
Rob

Willi Adelberger · Accepted Answer

change in the paragraph style from a World Compose to a Paragraph composer.

Joel Cherney · Answer

Can you post a sample doc with at least one bad footnote? I think your hunch w/r/t the ME edition is correct, and probably a little one-liner script that forces left-to-right character direction will resolve the issue for you. Not sure what kind of composer-changing script you used, but for languages like English, "Adobe Paragraph Composer" is probably the one you want to use.

Finding the paragraph style applied to your footnotes and making sure that the Composer is set to Adobe Paragraph Composer in the "Justification" section of the paragraph style will likely be a better way to doublecheck than a script that applies a composer to your document or text or style.

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