Hi David,
Try:
\version "2.18.2"
#(set-default-paper-size "a6")
\paper {
tagline = ##f
footnote-separator-markup = ##f
}
{
\override Score.FootnoteItem.annotation-line = ##f
\footnote "*" #'(0 . 3) \markup \fill-line { "*Theme by Louis Drouet" }
c'4
}
Cheers,
Pierre
2015-10-06 16:43 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler <da...@aeolia.co.uk>:
> I want to annotate a particular passage with a footnote.
>
> So far I have managed to get what I want in the music itself with:
>
> \override Score.FootnoteItem.annotation-line = ##f
> \footnote "*" #'(0 . 3) "Theme by Louis Drouet"
>
> This produces an asterisk over the first note of the relevant passage,
> which is exactly what I want.
>
> But there are 3 things about the footnote itself which I would like to
> alter.
>
> 1) If I don't specify a mark, Lilypond puts a "1" by the grob and by the
> footnote. But if I do specify a mark, the footnote itself does not show
> it, i.e. it has no asterisk (in this case) by it. I want the footnote
> to display the asterisk, otherwise it will not be clear why there is an
> asterisk in the score.
>
> 2) Lilypond produces a horizontal line separating the footnote area from
> the main part of the page. I would prefer not to have this - assuming
> that I can get the asterisk to be displayed next to the footnote, there
> is no ambiguity about what the footnote is there for.
>
> 3) I would like this footnote centred, rather than left-aligned on the
> page, but I haven't figured out how to do this. No doubt it involves
> normal markup commands, but I can't work out how to apply them in this
> case. (I have never used footnotes before.)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> David
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> lilypond-user mailing list
> lilypond-user@gnu.org
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
>
_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
