Re: Adds automatic numbering to footnotes. (issue4244064)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:

> One way to avoid a two-pass system is to redo the way that top-level markups 
> are stashed in LilyPond.  If LilyPond can re-evaluate these markups after 
> page breaking is calculated, it can scan to see if their vertical extent is 
> the same as the original.  If so, keep the page breaking configuration.  If 
> not, re-calculate page breaking, taking the new vertical extents into 
> account.  Then re-update the footnotes.  Do this as a loop until the new 
> extent equal the old extent for every text markup.

You realize that you may end up in an infinite loop for (rare)
degenerate cases, right? If anything, you should stop after the 2nd
pass.

-- 
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen