Comment #12 on issue 2505 by [email protected]: Patch: Doc: NR clarified
\footnote command as a TextScript
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2505
The changed code will not break "make doc": convert-ly takes care of that.
It will, however, look decidedly stupid if the text says something
like "footnotes come after the notes to which they are attached" and the
code looks like
<>\footnote "text"
c
instead of
c\footnote "text"
The output will be the same, but autocorrecting the input to move the
footnote across whatever simple event may follow is too complex to do for
convert-ly. Attaching it to <> means that the autoconversion can leave it
in place. But for something that people will actually _look_ at, we should
manually correct the source. This is not supposed to smuggle in <> through
the backdoor: it is actually the only thing that will work here for an
automatic conversion (which made me come up with the idea in the first
place). But that does not mean that the conversion result is fit for human
consumption.
