Re: automatic footnotes in stand-alone text broken?

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

> [git commit e51c3e033564d84a687eea86832563197e8a9815]
>
> In the NR section 'Footnotes in stand-alone text with automatic marks'
> the following example is given.
>
> ```
> \book {
>   \header { tagline = ##f }
>   \markup {
>     "A simple"
>     \footnote "tune" \italic " By me"
>     "is shown below.  It is a"
>     \footnote "recent" \italic " Aug 2012"
>     "composition."
>   }
>   \relative {
>     a'4 b8 e c4 d
>   }
> }
> ```
>
> However, this doesn't produce any footnote marks, as the attached
> image shows.  Something looks fishy...

The footnote marks are "tune" and "recent", respectively and it seems
like they appear just fine.

They are not examples of "automatic marks", however.

Apropos documentation: the doc string for the \footnote markup states

‘\footnote’ MKUP (markup) NOTE (markup)
     Have footnote NOTE act as an annotation to the markup MKUP.

          \markup {
            \auto-footnote a b
            \override #'(padding . 0.2)
            \auto-footnote c d
          }
.[image src="lilypond/69/lily-bd030652.png" alt="[image of music]".]

     The footnote will not be annotated automatically.

Again, flip-flopping between \footnote and \auto-footnote (apart from
which the footnotes do not actually appear in the documentation pages,
at least not in the Info version).

-- 
David Kastrup