> On 8 Sep 2021, at 03:33, Kevin Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am once again dipping my foot in the shallow end of the LilyPond. > > I added a footnote to the title. It puts the superscript "*" at the end, but > then the footnote never appears anywhere. What am I missing? (This isn't for > a book or anything fancy like that. And, initially I tried it without \concat > as just a single very long line, to the same effect.) > > \header { > title = \markup { > "The Song of the Heather" > \footnote "*" \concat { > "* This song has been translated by the leading Irish," > " Scotch Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish poets" > " into their native languages for singing in each Celtic" > " country and at Pan-Celtic Festivals." > } > } > } > > \score { > … > } >
From the looks of it footnotes are only supported in the musical context and in **standalone text**, so not in markup of header fields. Note how the example in the notation manual has the footnoted markup as a direct child of the \book, outside the header and outside the music. kind regards, Hans
