Re: Issue 1788 in lilypond: auto numbering footnote checkin doesn't play with \null and \musicglyph

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Updates:
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Comment #1 on issue 1788 by address@hidden: auto numbering footnote  
checkin doesn't play with \null and \musicglyph
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1788

From Mike:


> )You need to set footnote-auto-numbering = ##f in the paper block in
> all )your old examples.
> )
> )Cheers,
> )MS

> err.. did you look at the 'weird' pdf example?


Weird? It is beautiful!

> I didn't get any error from LP when I compiled it, so the user is not  
> going to get any knowledge that something is not right. They are just  
> going to get their music covered with numbers in all the margins and any  
> markups that contain glyphs will not come out (even though they have been  
> explicitly marked).


I'll post a patch with an error message.

> While documentation does help users do the right thing, we should be  
> reporting in the compilation message that something is wrong when they  
> make the file, I just don't know what can and cannot be used without the  
> \paper { } layout block now. All that this ##f option does as far as I  
> can tell is that it restarts the autonumbering again on the next page.

I have added a convert-ly rule letting users know that this will happen in  
case they've used footnotes in 2.14.


> Also, it seems there are now 3 commands

> \footnote

> \footnoteGrob

> and now \autofootnoteGrob

> but is there \autofootnote too?

> and are you saying the \auto* is mutually exclusive from the other type  
> and if we only have \autofootnoteGrob, what happens (as this example  
> shows) if I want to use \autofootnoteGrob and \footnote you can't?

> I don't think just telling a user to use this in the \paper { } block is  
> good enough compared to what we have.


I will write up a long e-mail either this weekend or tonight with reports  
on how automatic numbering works and send it to devel.  But you're right  
above - there is no \autofootnote command.  And, for now, if you add \paper  
{ footnote-auto-numbering = ##f } to all of your examples, they should look  
exactly like they did before.

Cheers,
MS