"Trevor Daniels" <t.daniels@tred...> writes:

> I'm trying to document footnotes and I have just begun to look at footnotes to lyrics.  There are so many issues with using automatic marks that I think I'll leave this out of the documentation.  Try this:
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     { a' b' c'' d'' }
>     \addlyrics {
>       One two
>       \footnote #'(0.01 . 0.01) #'LyricText "iii" \default
>       three
>       four
>     }
>   >>
> }
>
> It exposes at least 5 issues:
>
> a) The need to use \default has already been noted by David as a bug.
>
> b) The need to use tiny positive offsets to position the mark at top-right
> is silly.
>
> c) The mark itself is positioned too high, and it is not possible to lower it
> with other values of the offsets.  This method of offsetting from the object's
> boundaries limits the positioning to the four corner quadrants or along the
> vertical and horizontal centre lines.  Other positions are unreachable.
>
> d) The mark's extent is ignored, causing it to be positioned too close to the
> following lyric word.
>
> e) The alternative \auto-footnote command would probably work better,
> but it gives a syntax error in a Lyrics context.

You would have to write an actual markup, like

\markup \auto-footnote "three" "iii"

(or something similar, I can't remember the auto-footnote argument
order).

--
David Kastrup


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