Re: Footnote problem with \default

[Nick Payne]

On 01/07/12 14:31, David Kastrup wrote:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:
> > > \relative c'' {
> > >      \footnote #'(-1.5 . 1.5) \markup { Footnote } \default
> > >      c c c c
> > > }
> > music
> >
> >      This is the item, a music event or chord constituent or post-event,
> >      that is being annotated. While it cannot be omitted, it can be
> >      replaced by \default in which case the footnote is not attached to a
> >      music expression in particular, but rather to a moment of time. It
> >      is mandatory in this case to use the grob-name argument for
> >      selecting an affected grob type, like ‘#'TimeSignature’.
> >
> > I think the last sentence is rather clear.  See also
> > <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2547> which has
> > been orphaned at the moment.
> See also <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2559>
> for more background.
Thanks. I hadn't read the doco properly. Adding the grob name fixes it. 
On a somewhat related matter, if I have a StaffGroup with a time-related 
footnote in one staff, then the footnote indication gets attached to all 
staves at the same time moment, which would seem the desired behaviour, 
but that also results in the identical footnote text being duplicated as 
many times in the footer as there are staves in the StaffGroup.

Shouldn't the correct behaviour in this situation be for the footnote 
indication to appear in each stave (without incrementing the footnote 
number), and the footnote text to appear only once in the footer.

\version "2.15.40"

\paper {
    #(set-paper-size "a6")
}

notesa = \relative c'' {
    \footnote #'(-1.5 . 1.5) #'NoteHead \markup { Footnote } \default
    c c c c
}

notesb = \relative c'' {
    c c c c
}

notesc = \relative c'' {
    c c c c
}
\score {
    \new StaffGroup <<
        \new Staff {
            \clef treble
            \notesa
        }
        \new Staff {
            \clef treble
            \notesb
        }
        \new Staff {
            \clef treble
            \notesc
        }
    >>
    \layout { }
}

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