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

[lilypond]

Comment #6 on issue 4089 by tdanielsmusic: 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

Good question.  Never used these myself, but a quick experiment shows the  
oddFooterMarkup _replaces_ the copyright line on the first page, and it  
replaces the tagline on the last page if there are an odd number of pages,  
or if evenFooterMarkup is not defined.  If just evenFooterMarkup is defined  
the tagline is replaced if there are an even number of pages.

There are differences: footers are defined in \paper and copyright and  
tagline in \header, and both copyright and tagline appear if there is only  
one page and no footers.  Since \header fields can be picked up in \paper,  
the copyright and tagline fields can be easily incorporated and expanded in  
footers.

I'm tempted to think all we need to do is add the missing index entries for  
footers and expand their description a little to give their relationship  
with copyright and tagline.  Possibly these could be renamed firstFooter  
and lastFooter, but that's a rather larger change with a big effect on  
existing scores, and I'm not really in favour of that now I understand how  
footers work.  All the OP required was a footer, and they exist: it just  
needs indexing.

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