On Jul 24, 2011, at 7:01 PM, James Lowe wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry to seem to be obsessing about 'footnotes', it's just that when one does > start to look at all the nuances of a new function to make clear > documentation, one's focus does become a bit tunnel-vision-like. > > Looking at NR 1.7.2 (Balloon Text) and my proposed patch > > http://codereview.appspot.com/4751045/ for Footnotes; > > I'm wondering now what the *real* difference between the two are, other than > \footnote[Grob] lets you add a footnote to a balloon text - albeit without > the 'balloon'. > > Is this just the same core function with a 'bit of extra' either way - where > the intersect is that I get annotated grobs/text - and the non-intersect > parts of this Euler diagram is that one has a balloon around it or one has a > footnote attached to it? Now if I can just add \box markup to a > \footnote[Grob] then why is this significantly different to balloon text, and > if not different shouldn't we be deprecating balloon text or modifying > \footnote[Grob] and incoporating them into balloon text from a code point of > view? >
I would not at all be adverse to deprecating balloons - it is relatively easy to do and would require a trivial change around line 238 of system.cc. What do others think of this? Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
