RE: Footnotes to lyrics

[Daniel Rosen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:03 AM
> To: Daniel Rosen
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics
> 
> Phooey.  I assume that "Lyric" was supposed to be the text of the lyrics,
> right? 

Correct.

> 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).

The file compiles when I try this, but no footnote shows up. This syntax:

\version "2.16.1"
<<
  \new Voice = "voice" { c' d' e' f' }
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" { \footnote #'(1 . 1) "footnote" \default 
"Lyric" }
>>

yields this error:

warning: \footnote requires music or grob-name
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" { 
                                  \footnote #'(1 . 1) "footnote" \default 
"Lyric" }

> 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.

I'm guessing you're referring to the \auto-footnote markup command. That would 
indeed look better, but you're right--the output was identical to that of the 
example above, with no annotation showing up. This syntax:

\version "2.16.1"
<<
  \new Voice = "voice" { c' d' e' f' }
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" { \markup { \auto-footnote "Lyric" "footnote" } 
}
>>

yielded this error:
        
programming error: Cannot find correct footnote for a markup object.
continuing, cross fingers