Hi Kevin, On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:06 PM Kevin Pye <kjpl...@pye.id.au> wrote:
> For the first time in many years of using Lilypond, I have a need to add a > footnote to some music. One thing puzzles me: > > As is traditional in all texts, Lilypond places a horizontal line above > the footnotes, separating them from the music above. However the horizontal > position of this line confuses me. I would have expected the line to be > above the footnotes, starting at the left margin. However it is placed > further to the right. This can be seen in the examples in the NR ( > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/footnotes-in-music-expressions). > In my case the footnote is in the second bar of music in the staff, and the > line does not start until the beginning of that bar, potentially after the > end of the footnote text. Because the music to which the footnote is > attached may be several staves above the footnote text, this does not make > sense to me. > > Is there some way of shifting this line to the left margin? > > Kevin. > The function defining the separator line can be found in ly/ paper-defaults-init.ly It defaults to: footnote-separator-markup = \markup \fill-line { \override #'(span-factor . 1/2) \draw-hline } Copying that into the \paper block of your .ly file, you can then tweak it to whatever you desire. Simply removing \fill-line will shift the line to the left margin, leaving the length the same. -- Michael
