Re: Footnotes documentation

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On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:08 PM, George_ wrote:

> 
> I'm confused by what the notation reference has to say about footnotes:
> 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/other
> 
> Regarding the example for \auto-footnote and \footnote (they are identical -
> why?), where do the 'b' and 'd' go? The text says that \auto-footnote means
> "The footnote will be annotated automatically" (I don't understand what this
> means either), whereas for \footnote this is not the case. But using
> \auto-footnote gives me an error saying the \auto-footnote is an unknown
> escaped string.
> 
> For example: 
> 
> \markup { \auto-footnote "one" "two" }
> 
> prints "auto-footnote one two"
> 
> and
> 
> \markup { \footnote "one" "two" }
> 
> prints "one" with no footnote.
> 
> I don't care at this point whether the note is a footnote or endnote, I'll
> be happy with either - preferably a footnote, but given that I can't get it
> to print anything, even a working endnote would be an improvement.

Hey George,

What version of LilyPond are you using?

Cheers,
MS