Re: Tweaking a footnote

[Pierre Perol-Schneider]

Hi David,

Try:

\version "2.18.2"
#(set-default-paper-size "a6")

\paper {
  tagline = ##f
  footnote-separator-markup = ##f
}

{
  \override Score.FootnoteItem.annotation-line = ##f
  \footnote "*" #'(0 . 3) \markup \fill-line { "*Theme by Louis Drouet" }
      c'4
}

Cheers,

Pierre

2015-10-06 16:43 GMT+02:00 David Sumbler <address@hidden>:

I want to annotate a particular passage with a footnote.

So far I have managed to get what I want in the music itself with:

\override Score.FootnoteItem.annotation-line = ##f
\footnote "*" #'(0 . 3) "Theme by Louis Drouet"

This produces an asterisk over the first note of the relevant passage,
which is exactly what I want.

But there are 3 things about the footnote itself which I would like to
alter.

1) If I don't specify a mark, Lilypond puts a "1" by the grob and by the
footnote.  But if I do specify a mark, the footnote itself does not show
it, i.e. it has no asterisk (in this case) by it.  I want the footnote
to display the asterisk, otherwise it will not be clear why there is an
asterisk in the score.

2) Lilypond produces a horizontal line separating the footnote area from
the main part of the page.  I would prefer not to have this - assuming
that I can get the asterisk to be displayed next to the footnote, there
is no ambiguity about what the footnote is there for.

3) I would like this footnote centred, rather than left-aligned on the
page, but I haven't figured out how to do this.  No doubt it involves
normal markup commands, but I can't work out how to apply them in this
case.  (I have never used footnotes before.)

Thanks for any suggestions.

David


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