Re: Misunderstanding \footnote

[Hans Aikema]

> On 8 Sep 2021, at 03:33, Kevin Cole <dc.loco@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am once again dipping my foot in the shallow end of the LilyPond.
> 
> I added a footnote to the title. It puts the superscript "*" at the end, but 
> then the footnote never appears anywhere.  What am I missing? (This isn't for 
> a book or anything fancy like that. And, initially I tried it without \concat 
> as just a single very long line, to the same effect.)
> 
> \header {
>   title = \markup {
>     "The Song of the Heather"
>     \footnote "*" \concat {
>       "* This song has been translated by the leading Irish,"
>       " Scotch Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish poets"
>       " into their native languages for singing in each Celtic"
>       " country and at Pan-Celtic Festivals."
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> \score {
>   …
> }
> 

From the looks of it footnotes are only supported in the musical context and in 
**standalone text**, so not in markup of header fields.

Note how the example in the notation manual has the footnoted markup as a 
direct child of the \book, outside the header and outside the music.

kind regards,
Hans