Hello, On 23 April 2012 07:59, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > James <pkx1...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> On 20 April 2012 00:40, Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net> wrote: >>> The documentation at >>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes for >>> both automatic and manual footnotes says that the \footnote command must >>> come *before* the grob to which the footnote is being attached. This doesn't >>> seem to be the case. Here the \footnote commands are after the notes to >>> which they are attached, and they work fine: >>> >>> \version "2.15.37" >>> >>> \paper { >>> #(set-paper-size "a7") >>> } >>> >>> \header { >>> tagline = ##f >>> } >>> >>> \relative c'' { >>> c4 c-\footnote #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { Automatic footnote >>> } >>> c c-\footnote "a)" #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { \concat { >>> \lower #0.8 \super { a) } "Manual footnote" } } >>> } >> >> Actually on a technical point here, the \footnote comes after a '-' >> after the note which while, I grant you, is not 'before' the note is >> not actually after the note either. >> >> Is this significant? > > I have no idea. -\footnote introduces the footnote as an event and/or > articulation. \footnote on its own just places it as an event running > at the same time as material that follows. > > The question is what one wants > > c4\footnote ... > > to do. If the footnote should be an event/articulation on c4, then we > should define it as an event function, and it will in general act like a > post event (unless there is nothing before it to which it could attach). > If it should _follow_ the c4, then it needs to stay a music function. > > I repeat: I have _no_ _clue_ _whatsoever_ how \footnote is intended to > be used. Most music functions can be tacked onto notes as an > articulation by writing > c4-\somefunction > without this implying that anything sensible will actually happen, or > that this is the preferred form of usage. > > Unless somebody who actually has an idea how footnotes are _supposed_ to > be used steps up, I have _no_ _idea_ what usage to prefer, what usage to > support, and what usage to document. >
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2505 Thanks for all our input. james _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
