Re: date in footer?

[Brett Duncan]

Chip wrote:

> What's a PEBKAC? I've never seen that before. Anyway, I still find it 
> hard to relate the footer to titles and headers, it just doesn't make 
> sense to me to include it with those. In my way of thinking the footer 
> is a separate entity and should be treated as such.

Hi Chip,

I agree with you, having elements that go in the page footer appear 
under "Titles and Headers" is a bit confusing. And it probably would 
have been more helpful to you if you had been directed to the section on 
custom titles 
(http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Custom-titles), 
which discusses a number of variables you can set in the \paper block, 
such as oddFooterMarkup.

So, combined with the definition for date you've already found, you can have

\paper {
        oddFooterMarkup = \markup { \date }     
}


HTH,

Brett