Re: Footnotes to lyrics

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:24 PM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: Footnotes to lyrics
>> 
>> Daniel Rosen <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > At
>> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/creating-
>> foot
>> > notes, it says that lyrics are events that can have footnotes attached
>> > to them, but I can't figure out how to do this--when I use the
>> > "\footnote offset footnote music" formula within a lyricmode block I
>> > get an "unexpected LYRICS_STRING" error. Can someone clarify?
>> 
>> Do you have a minimal example? 
>
> All that I have is what gives me the error I described above:
>
> \version "2.16.1"
> <<
>   \new Voice = "voice" { c' d' e' f' }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" { \footnote #'(1 . 1) "footnote" Lyric }

Conversion to 2.17.13 (what I have here) leaves this unchanged.  The
error message is a different one, though.  I can make the above work
using \markup "Lyric" instead of Lyric.  As you don't post the exact
error message corresponding to your source file, I have no idea whether
the error is triggered at the same point.

At one point of time, I plan distinguishing Lyric and "Lyric" in
function arguments, and then you'll get along without the disconcerting
disambiguator "\markup".  But that's somewhat unfinished yet.

-- 
David Kastrup