Re: Footnotes inside header markups

[Ralph Palmer]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Barikavily <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I'm not top posting.
>
> \version "2.16.2"
>
> % Footnotes don't work when located inside a header block
> % (Same thing happens with auto-footnote)
>
> \markup {
>         Top-level markup
>         \footnote "*" \italic "* This is my top-level markup footnote"
> }
>
> \score {
>         { c' }
>         \header {
>                 piece = \markup {
>                         Piece markup
>                         \footnote "**" \italic "** Footnote about the
> piece title"
>                 }
>         }
> }


As far as I can tell, no one else has replied to Barikavily, so here goes .
. .
>From the documentation, it looks to me like \footnote is intended to be
used only with music, not with headers. Is that a correct interpretation,
LilyPonders? If so, the behavior you describe, Barikavily, is the intended
behavior.

Ralph