On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:32 AM N. Andrew Walsh via LilyPond user
discussion <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> my (deep sigh) client really likes adding a lot of text annotations to
> parts of his pieces. In the present case, he wants to add a footnote to a
> section title to explain the movie reference the title makes. Since my
> section titles are done using \mark objects, I'm trying to figure out how
> to add footnotes to them.
>
> Here's an MWE:
> ----------------------------
> \version "2.25.24"
>
> global= {
> \time 4/8
> \mark \markup { \abs-fontsize #16 \bold "SECTION TITLE" }
> }
>
> oDAMusic = \relative c'' {
> \key f \minor
> R2*12
>
> | %13
> r4 bes
> }
> \score {
> \new Staff = "Staff_oboeDA" <<
> \global \oDAMusic
> >>
> }
> --------------------------------------
> What I want is for SECTION TITLE to have a footnote attached to it, with
> an auto-footnote placing a text string at the bottom of the page. But the
> syntax given at
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/footnotes-in-stand_002dalone-text
> doesn't
> seem to work. Is there actually a way to do this?
>
I was able to get time-based footnotes working for Rehearsal Marks (
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/footnotes-in-music-expressions
):
%%%
global= {
\time 4/8
\footnote #'(1 . 1) "Casablanca" Score.RehearsalMark
\mark \markup { \abs-fontsize #16 \bold "SECTION TITLE" }
}
oDAMusic = \relative c'' {
\key f \minor
R2*12
| %13
r4 bes
}
\score {
\new Staff = "Staff_oboeDA" <<
\global \oDAMusic
>>
}
%%%
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