Re: footnote counter

[Mark Knoop]

At 00:35 on 26 May 2016, Jeffery Shivers wrote:
>I am trying to find the following two things regarding footnotes:
>
>1) How might I retrieve the accumulated number of footnotes either for
>an entire document/section, or at least for a single page?
>
>2) In the notation doc [
>http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation.pdf], pg. 481, the
>'mark' element describes that the count is automatically reset on each
>page that contains a footnote. Where is that function written; and how
>could it be overwritten (specifically to *not* automatically reset
>ever, or (additionally) to only reset when explicitly instructed)?

\paper {
  reset-footnotes-on-new-page = ##f
}

will do the first. I'm afraid I can't help with the other points.

-- 
Mark Knoop