Re: Footnotes to lyrics

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:24 AM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics
>> 
>> Conversion to 2.17.13 (what I have here) leaves this unchanged.  The error
>> message is a different one, though.  I can make the above work using
>> \markup "Lyric" instead of Lyric.  As you don't post the exact error
>> message
>> corresponding to your source file, I have no idea whether the error is
>> triggered at the same point.
>> 
>> At one point of time, I plan distinguishing Lyric and "Lyric" in function
>> arguments, and then you'll get along without the disconcerting
>> disambiguator "\markup".  But that's somewhat unfinished yet.
>
> The exact error message that I got was:
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected LYRICS_STRING
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" { \footnote #'(1 . 1) "footnote" 
>                                                                  Lyric }
>
> Changing Lyric to \markup "Lyric" gets me:
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected LYRIC_MARKUP
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" { \footnote #'(1 . 1) "footnote" 
>                                                                  \markup 
> "Lyric" }

Phooey.  I assume that "Lyric" was supposed to be the text of the
lyrics, right?  Then the next thing to try would likely be writing
\default before Lyrics (to tell LilyPond that one really, really, really
wants to skip the specification of a grob if I remember the 2.16
arguments correctly).

I remember that tweaks/overrides and the related footnotes were a bit
tricky in Lyrics mode.

It would likely look better to use the footnote commands available
inside of markup, but I think that the footnote texts did not make it to
the page then.  Actually, that's also something that should likely get
fixed.

-- 
David Kastrup