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Re: Five issues with automatic footnotes to lyrics
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Five issues with automatic footnotes to lyrics |
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Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:43:10 +0200 |
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"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm trying to document footnotes and I have just begun to look at footnotes
> to lyrics. There are so many issues with using automatic marks that I think
> I'll leave this out of the documentation. Try this:
>
> \score {
> <<
> { a' b' c'' d'' }
> \addlyrics {
> One two
> \footnote #'(0.01 . 0.01) #'LyricText "iii" \default
> three
> four
> }
> >>
> }
>
> It exposes at least 5 issues:
>
> a) The need to use \default has already been noted by David as a bug.
>
> b) The need to use tiny positive offsets to position the mark at top-right
> is silly.
>
> c) The mark itself is positioned too high, and it is not possible to lower it
> with other values of the offsets. This method of offsetting from the object's
> boundaries limits the positioning to the four corner quadrants or along the
> vertical and horizontal centre lines. Other positions are unreachable.
>
> d) The mark's extent is ignored, causing it to be positioned too close to the
> following lyric word.
>
> e) The alternative \auto-footnote command would probably work better,
> but it gives a syntax error in a Lyrics context.
You would have to write an actual markup, like
\markup \auto-footnote "three" "iii"
(or something similar, I can't remember the auto-footnote argument
order).
--
David Kastrup