Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4089 in lilypond: NR: Add better indication that the automatic lilypond 'footer' string is known as a 'tagline'

[lilypond]

Comment #7 on issue 4089 by address@hidden: NR: Add better  
indication that the automatic lilypond 'footer' string is known as  
a 'tagline'
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4089

Hmm.  Fact is, Lily doesn't handle headers, footers, and the other top and  
bottom of page stuff too well, and how it does handle it isn't documented  
too well.  We mention oddHeaderMarkup and its siblings but with no example  
of how to use them and what they produce.  We don't mention that, to set  
the same footer on every page, you just need to set oddFooterMarkup but  
that doesn't work with headers.

If you set headers, then the page numbers disappear.  If you set footers,  
then the tagline and copyright disappear.

My conclusions: 1) tagline is a perfectly good name for the line that  
appears at the bottom of the last page.  2) we could do with documenting  
the header/footer markup stuff and its limitations better.  3) We should  
have an index entry "footer" 4) From a development perspective, rather than  
a documentation one, I think it would be better if page numbers, copyright,  
taglines, etc., were separate entities from the header/footer markup.

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