Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2505 in lilypond: Patch: Doc: NR clarified \footnote command as a TextScript

[lilypond]

Comment #12 on issue 2505 by address@hidden: Patch: Doc: NR clarified  
\footnote command as a TextScript
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2505

The changed code will not break "make doc": convert-ly takes care of that.   
It will, however, look decidedly stupid if the text says something  
like "footnotes come after the notes to which they are attached" and the  
code looks like

<>\footnote "text"
c

instead of

c\footnote "text"

The output will be the same, but autocorrecting the input to move the  
footnote across whatever simple event may follow is too complex to do for  
convert-ly.  Attaching it to <> means that the autoconversion can leave it  
in place.  But for something that people will actually _look_ at, we should  
manually correct the source.  This is not supposed to smuggle in <> through  
the backdoor: it is actually the only thing that will work here for an  
automatic conversion (which made me come up with the idea in the first  
place).  But that does not mean that the conversion result is fit for human  
consumption.