Re: using footnotes on lyrics with lilypond-book

[Mats Bengtsson]

It should be noted that this solution will not work in LilyPond
version 2.5 or later.

   /Mats

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is a small how-to for others who try to do the same.  I had to
> add footnotes for lyrics in my song book, here is how I did it:
>
> In the .ly file:
>
> First set encoding to TeX, so the extra tex commands will not be
> counted as space:
>
> \encoding "Tex"
>
> To add footnotes, you need to put the lyrics in double-quotes, and put
> the exact footnote number in brackets, as lilypond may reorder them in
> the .tex output file.  The encoding "TeX" makes sure the marker is not
> counted as space, but this means the footnotemark is not counted at
> all, so I add a single space to compensate for that.  Maybe the TeX
> encoding could be improved to calculate the space better.
>
> ... "please\footnotemark[1] " ...
>
> Then in the lilypond book, add the footnote text:
>
> \lilypondfile{002.ly}
> \footnotetext[1]{Also: tease.}
>
> That's it.  Have fun.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
>
>
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