Re: convert-ly not handling footnotes correctly

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> In 2.15 I had footnotes set out like so:
>
> \version "2.15.35"
>
> \relative c'' {
> c4 c-\footnote #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { Automatic
> footnote }
> c c-\footnote "a)" #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { \concat {
> \lower #0.8 \super { a) } "Manual footnote" } }
> }
>
> With 2.15.35 this builds without error and gives correct output.
> Running 2.17.7 convert-ly against it changes the source to that below,
> without any warning messages on the console, but trying to build the
> file gives a couple of error message on the console: "programming
> error: Not a music type", and the footnotes are missing from the
> output.
>
> \version "2.17.6"
>
> \relative c'' {
> c4 c-\footnote #'(0.7 . 2) \markup\teeny { Automatic footnote }
> NoteHead
> c c-\footnote "a)" #'(0.7 . 2) \markup\teeny { \concat { \lower #0.8
> \super { a) } "Manual footnote" } } NoteHead
> }

Footnotes don't work as articulation, and moving them in front of the
footnoted material is too hard to do automatically.  You need to change
this manually to

\footnote ... c

The order of the \footnote arguments, however, should be juggled around
correctly by convert-ly.

-- 
David Kastrup