Re: Implements footnotes in LilyPond (issue4245062)

[Mike Solomon]

On Mar 5, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Neil Puttock wrote:

> On 5 March 2011 14:38, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Done - thanks for bearing with me as I learn about break-visibility.  It is 
>> a corner of the code that I never had to deal with directly, so I'm still 
>> getting my sea legs.
> 
> I suggest you remove the fallback value from
> inherit-x-parent-visibility (or if you prefer, add another callback
> for y-parent visibility without a default) otherwise grobs which don't
> care about break-visibility (such as noteheads) will lose their
> footnotes.
> 
>> If you feel this is too hackish, I could make this direction-only (LEFT, 
>> CENTER, RIGHT) with CENTER defaulting to LEFT and have the footnote only 
>> apply to the first and last spanner.  But, for long spanners, this seems 
>> less than ideal.  As always, your suggestions are welcome!
> 
> I'm afraid I'm at a loss to suggest anything better, so I'll have to
> put up with it (unless anybody else can think of a better way.

The first half has been pushed with everything changed save this one caveat 
that you bring up.  If after a week people have better suggestions after having 
played around with these footnotes, I'll incorporate that into push 2/2.

Cheers,
MS