Thanks Michael, To my eye that looks a lot better.
Kevin. On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, at 12:57, Michael Werner wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 8:06 PM Kevin Pye <[email protected]> wrote: >> __ >> For the first time in many years of using Lilypond, I have a need to add a >> footnote to some music. One thing puzzles me: >> >> As is traditional in all texts, Lilypond places a horizontal line above the >> footnotes, separating them from the music above. However the horizontal >> position of this line confuses me. I would have expected the line to be >> above the footnotes, starting at the left margin. However it is placed >> further to the right. This can be seen in the examples in the NR >> (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/footnotes-in-music-expressions). >> In my case the footnote is in the second bar of music in the staff, and the >> line does not start until the beginning of that bar, potentially after the >> end of the footnote text. Because the music to which the footnote is >> attached may be several staves above the footnote text, this does not make >> sense to me. >> >> Is there some way of shifting this line to the left margin? >> >> Kevin. > The function defining the separator line can be found in > ly/paper-defaults-init.ly It defaults to: > footnote-separator-markup = \markup \fill-line { \override #'(span-factor . > 1/2) \draw-hline } > Copying that into the \paper block of your .ly file, you can then tweak it to > whatever you desire. Simply removing \fill-line will shift the line to the > left margin, leaving the length the same. > -- > Michael
