Re: Footnote

[Dimitri Sykias]

Thank you very much!

> On 22 Aug 2024, at 6:27 AM, William Rehwinkel via LilyPond user discussion 
> <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Werner,
> 
> Oh, because it's all in a `\markup` block...my bad. Probably because we can do
> 
> % -----------
> \version "2.25.18"
> \relative c' {
>  \footnote #'(1 . 1) \markup {hello} c4
>  \footnote #'(1 . 1) "hello" c4
>  %\footnote #'(1 . 1) {hello} c4 % error
>  %\footnote #'(1 . 1) \wordwrap {hello} c4 % error
> }
> % -----------
> 
> meanwhile, with `\auto-footnote` we can do
> 
> % -----------
> \version "2.25.18"
> 
> \markup { A \auto-footnote "B" \line {footnote text here } C }
> \markup { A \auto-footnote "B" "footnote text here"  C }
> % error:
> %\markup { A \auto-footnote "B" \markup{footnote text here}  C }
> % weird behavior:
> \markup { A \auto-footnote "B" {footnote text here} C }
> % -----------
> 
> is why I got confused.
> 
> -William
> 
> 
> On 8/21/24 23:09, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> Actually, the \auto-footnote function operates a little weirdly (at
>>> least it didn't seem intuitive to me). The `text` and `footnote` in
>>> 
>>> `\auto-footnote text footnote`
>>> 
>>> are just the contents of the markup, so you write what you would
>>> write inside the brackets of \markup{}.
>> It's not weird at all.  You simply can't use `\markup` within
>> `\markup`.  Similarly, you can't use `\lyricmode` within `\lyricmode`,
>> etc., etc.
>> If you look at the documentation you can see the following
>>   ‘\auto-footnote’ MKUP (markup) NOTE (markup)
>> which means that both arguments are markups.  I think we have an XY
>> problem here: It seems to me that the OP believes that the arguments
>> have to be strings enclosed in double quotes.  This is not correct.
>> In most cases you can omit the double quotes while being in a
>> `\markup` block.
>> On the other hand, there are subtle differences between saying
>>   \markup { foo bar }
>> and
>>   \markup { "foo bar" }
>> The former uses LilyPond's idea of a space between words as set up by
>> `\markup` (i.e., it uses the value given by the markup's `word-space`
>> property, which can be modified using `\override` within `\markup`).
>> The latter, however, uses the space character as defined in the used
>> font, which is usually a different value.
>> In case it is absolutely necessary to use the font's space character
>> combined with other text markup, you have to use `\concat` like in the
>> following example.
>> ```
>> \markup \concat {
>>   "This is a "
>>   \with-color #red "red "
>>   "word in a sentence." }
>> ```
>>     Werner
> 
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