"Trevor Daniels" <[email protected]> writes: > I'm trying to document footnotes and I have just begun to look at footnotes > to lyrics. There are so many issues with using automatic marks that I think > I'll leave this out of the documentation. Try this: > > \score { > << > { a' b' c'' d'' } > \addlyrics { > One two > \footnote #'(0.01 . 0.01) #'LyricText "iii" \default > three > four > } > >> > } > > It exposes at least 5 issues: > > a) The need to use \default has already been noted by David as a bug. > > b) The need to use tiny positive offsets to position the mark at top-right > is silly. > > c) The mark itself is positioned too high, and it is not possible to lower it > with other values of the offsets. This method of offsetting from the object's > boundaries limits the positioning to the four corner quadrants or along the > vertical and horizontal centre lines. Other positions are unreachable. > > d) The mark's extent is ignored, causing it to be positioned too close to the > following lyric word. > > e) The alternative \auto-footnote command would probably work better, > but it gives a syntax error in a Lyrics context.
You would have to write an actual markup, like \markup \auto-footnote "three" "iii" (or something similar, I can't remember the auto-footnote argument order). -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
