Re: footnotes in markup attached to notes not working

[Dan McMahill]

On 12/19/2014 8:57 AM, Ralph Palmer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Dan McMahill <address@hidden
> <mailto: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



I've read that section several times.  I am trying to put text at a 
particular place in the music that says "(rit)*".  This text should not 
draw a line to a particular note but just be under where the note 
appears.  Then there needs to be a footnote about the rit.  I did not 
see anything in that section showing how to achieve this (or at least 
anything that works).  It is quite possible I'm just being dense.

-Dan