Re: Let \footnote do the job of \footnote, \footnoteGrob, \autoFootnote and \autoFootnoteGrob (issue 5527058)

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On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:23 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Well, scanning for \markup ... will be quite more of a challenge.
>> Another problem I see is coordinating the change with the equally-named
>> \footnote markup command.  I have to see how that is defined.
>> 
>> On the plus side, most user files will likely be using \autoFootnote.
> 
> I have just looked at the definitions of the \footnote and
> \auto-footnote markups.  They are a total mess in discord with their
> documentation, so it is not all that likely that users have been using
> them much.
> 
>    (define-markup-command (footnote layout props mkup note)
>      (markup? markup?)
>      #:category other
>      "Have footnote @var{note} act as an annotation to the markup @var{mkup}.
> 
>    @lilypond[verbatim,quote]
>    \\markup {
>      \\auto-footnote a b
>      \\override #'(padding . 0.2)
>      \\auto-footnote c d
>    }
>    @end lilypond
>    The footnote will not be annotated automatically."
> 
> The footnote called with \auto-footnote will not be annotated automatically?
> 
>    (define-markup-command (auto-footnote layout props mkup note)
>      (markup? markup?)
>      #:category other
>      #:properties ((raise 0.5)
>                    (padding 0.0))
>      "Have footnote @var{note} act as an annotation to the markup @var{mkup}.
> 
>    @lilypond[verbatim,quote]
>    \\markup {
>      \\auto-footnote a b
>      \\override #'(padding . 0.2)
>      \\auto-footnote c d
>    }
>    @end lilypond
>    The footnote will be annotated automatically."
>      (let* ((markup-stencil (interpret-markup layout props mkup))
>             (auto-numbering (ly:output-def-lookup layout
>                                                   'footnote-auto-numbering))
> 
> What's that?  auto-numbering will only be active if
> footnote-auto-numbering is set in the layout?  Which it isn't by
> default?  And where there is no documentation around explaining how and
> why you should do that?



Several typos are in here.  \auto-footnote does work automatically, and 
footnote-auto-numbering no longer exists (I forgot to remove this when I forgot 
to remove a similar statement in the other doc string).

Cheers,
MS