Re: footnotes in markup attached to notes not working

[Ralph Palmer]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Dan McMahill <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm not top posting.
>
> % The first footnote works as expected.
> % the second doesn't.  The second puts the * in the markup bu
> % doesn't actually create the footnote.
>
> % Checked with version 2.19.15
>
> \version "2.19.15"
>
> % test 1
> \markup{ \italic "(rit.)" \footnote "*" \italic "* First note about the
> rit." }
>
>
> hornA = \relative c' {
>   \key a \major
>   \time 3/4
>   a4 a a |
>   % test 2
>   a_\markup{ \italic "(rit.)" \footnote "*" \italic "* Second note about
> the
> rit." }
>    a a |
> }
>
>
> hornPartA = \new Staff \with {
>   %instrumentName = "Horn in F"
>   midiInstrument = "french horn"
> } {\transposition f \hornA }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \hornPartA
>   >>
>   \layout { }
>   \midi { }
> }
>

Greetings, Dan -

Please check out 3.2.3 Creating footnotes
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes> in
the Notation Reference.

Ralph