Thanks for the response. It hadn't occurred to me to look in \paper
variables for 'footnote-separator-markup', though it probably should
have done.
Similarly, it hadn't occurred to me simply to put the asterisk into the
footnote string, even though this should have been an obvious solution!
I think I was mystified by that fact that Lilypond prints its default
mark in the text, but if you change that default, it doesn't. Somehow
that stopped me seeing the obvious.
Thanks again.
David
On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 17:04 +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> 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
>
>
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