Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2536 in lilypond: Patch: Make \footnote work via \tweak

[lilypond]

Comment #26 on issue 2536 by address@hidden: Patch: Make \footnote work via  
\tweak
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2536

As a postscriptum: the syntax currently is more or less:

\footnote ["mark"] offset [#'Grob] "footnote text" [music]

With a non-greedy approach to argument matching regarding multiple  
arguments of the same kind, one could make this

\footnote [Grob] offset ["mark"] "footnote text" [music]

a much, much more natural syntax.  With the greedy approach, an optional  
argument before an argument of the same type does not make sense.  While it  
would appear that one can effectively do this as

\footnote [Grob] offset "mark-or-text" ["text-when-mark"] [music]

instead, optional arguments at the end of an argument list are not really  
optional unless you explicitly write \default, and a single \default  
exhausts any _consecutive_ optional arguments, so there would be no way to  
_not_ have a mark, but still have music.

So this is definitely an improvement that would be worthwhile to make once  
the parser is in a state making it feasible.