Re: Footnote documentation error

[James]

Hello,

On 20 April 2012 00:40, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:
> The documentation at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes for
> both automatic and manual footnotes says that the \footnote command must
> come *before* the grob to which the footnote is being attached. This doesn't
> seem to be the case. Here the \footnote commands are after the notes to
> which they are attached, and they work fine:
>
> \version "2.15.37"
>
> \paper {
>     #(set-paper-size "a7")
> }
>
> \header {
>         tagline = ##f
> }
>
> \relative c'' {
>     c4 c-\footnote #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { Automatic footnote
> }
>     c c-\footnote "a)" #'(0.7 . 2) #'NoteHead \markup\teeny { \concat {
> \lower #0.8 \super { a) } "Manual footnote" } }
> }

Actually on a technical point here, the \footnote comes after a '-'
after the note which while, I grant you, is not 'before' the note is
not actually after the note either.

Is this significant?

james