"m...@apollinemike.com" <m...@apollinemike.com> writes: > 10 is the magic threshold for cataclysmic footnote failure. There is > currently no sure fire way to get LilyPond to anticipate a footnote's > eventual width and to deal w/ it accordingly. > > I don't think this is a prohibitive gotchya, but it is super annoying. > If anyone knows how LaTeX deals with this, I'd be interested in > hearing about it!
LaTeX keeps a running counter which it advances whenever it executes \footnote in the source text. It consequently knows how much space a footnote number takes at the point of time where it needs to typeset it. It does not know in advance how much space the largest footnote number in the document will take up, so the consistent left margin for footnote numbers on all pages takes up a fixed size. The magic threshold for this size to be insufficient tends to be 1000 for standard document classes if I remember correctly. In that case the footnote numbers in the footnote block start sticking further into the left margin than the main text. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
