Re: second footnote in Lyrics doesn't work

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello Kieren,

On 12.11.2015 15:37, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In lyricmode, this works as expected:
>
>      Oo, __ oo, __
>      \footnote #"*" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"* like the shower scene in “Psycho”" Ree! 
> Ree! Ree!
>      Hel -- lo!
>
> but this
>
>      Oo, __ oo, __
>      \footnote #"*" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"* like the shower scene in “Psycho”" Ree! 
> Ree! Ree!
>      \footnote #"†" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"† like Lenny & Squiggy from “Laverne & 
> Shirley”" Hel -- lo!
>
> throws
>
>      error: bad grob property path (Hel footnote-music)
>
> I can’t seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong, despite RTFM.

It seems that every kind of alphabetic string is mistaken by \footnote 
to be the second-to-last, optional argument, specifying the grob path. 
There are two solutions I found:
%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.31"
<<
  { 4 4 }
  \addlyrics { \footnote #"†" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"† like Lenny & Squiggy 
from “Laverne & Shirley”" LyricText Hel -- lo! }
>>
%%%%%%%%%%%
or
%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.31"
<<
  { 4 4 }
  \addlyrics { \footnote #"†" #'(-1 . 0.5) #"† like Lenny & Squiggy 
from “Laverne & Shirley”" \markup "Hel" -- lo! }
>>
%%%%%%%%%%%

HTH, Simon