Comment #1 on issue 2971 by [email protected]: Clarify the limitation on
footnotes as articulations
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2971
I don't understand the issue. Footnotes don't work as articulations on
_anything_. In 2.15.??, you could use footnotes as articulations on some
items, an interface that was both costly in performance as well as
inconsistent with other uses of footnotes. This has been removed. While
there still can occur
-\footnote ...
in the source, this will only work when followed by an articulation to be
footnoted, namely we don't get a footnote as an articulation in this case,
but rather a footnoted articulation. The footnote just acts as a tweak.
So I really can't guess what the issue is supposed to be about. It may be
that it is invalid in its assumptions, in which case we should at least
think how we can better clarify the documentation causing these assumptions.
Can you give examples of what you were thinking of?
