Re: Let \footnote do the job of \footnote, \footnoteGrob, \autoFootnote and \autoFootnoteGrob (issue 5527058)

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:23 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> What's that?  auto-numbering will only be active if
>> footnote-auto-numbering is set in the layout?  Which it isn't by
>> default?  And where there is no documentation around explaining how and
>> why you should do that?
>
>
>
> Several typos are in here.  \auto-footnote does work automatically,
> and footnote-auto-numbering no longer exists (I forgot to remove this
> when I forgot to remove a similar statement in the other doc string).

footnote-auto-numbering is present in the _code_.  This is not just a
question of the doc string.  There _is_ user-level documentation in the
notation manual (as a warning) mentioning, something like one has to set
it to ##f if one wants to be using non-auto footnumbers.

I consider it unlikely that footnotes in markup have been used all that
much, given the incoherent state of both documentation as well as the
code itself.  So I am not worried all that much if convert-ly can't deal
with markup footnotes nicely.  It does not look like LilyPond itself can
deal with markup footnotes all that nicely.

-- 
David Kastrup