Re: Footnotes to lyrics

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Trevor Daniels [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:44 PM
>> To: wjm; address@hidden; Lilypond-User List
>> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics
>> 
>> 
>> wjm wrote Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:34 PM
>> 
>> > From the NR LilyPond version 2.17.13
>> > +++++++
>> > Known issues and warnings
>> >
>> > Footnotes cannot be attached to MultiMeasureRests or automatic beams
>> > or lyrics.
>> >
>> 
>> Yes; when I documented the footnote command I failed to find a way of
>> adding a footnote to lyrics.  Hence this statement in the NR.
>> 
>> And I raised a bug report at the time:
>> 
>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2819
>
> Can anyone recommend a workaround in the meantime?

The following actually works fine for me in 2.17.12:

\score {
  { c'4 c' c' c' }
  \addlyrics
  { \footnote #'(-2 . -2) \markup "text"
    \markup Mu- sic is nice }
}


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David Kastrup