Re: Five issues with automatic footnotes to lyrics

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> "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:

>> 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).

To save you some time experimentation: I think I remember trying to do
this (which would be an obvious way to footnote lyrics) and I think, as
opposed to top-level markup, the footnote itself does not make it to the
page then.

Since this is an obvious placement for a markup footnote, it might be
worth creating a separate issue for that and ask for the footnote text
to migrate to the bottom of the page in this special case of markup
footnote as well.

-- 
David Kastrup