Re: \footnote does nothing? :(

[Ian Ring]

Simon: as you predicted, making the minimal example helped to isolate the problem and expose the solution. 

For posterity, my mistake was that I was trying to apply the footnote to a chord, instead of to a note within the chord.

Thanks!

Ian

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On 23.01.2017 21:06, Ian Ring wrote:
>
> I've inserted a \footnote into my score, but it doesn't do anything.
> Just wondering where I might look for problems. I'm fairly new to
> Lilypond.
> The LY source is in a private git repo but I can share it somewhere
> public if anyone is willing to take a diagnostic look at it.
>

\footnote is known to usually do something :-) so it’s not possible to
tell without having a look at the code. More precisely, you need to have
a go at producing a minimal example (see
<http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html>), so anybody helping you out

won’t have to filter out irrelevant parts himself. Just try deleting (or
commenting out) parts of the project and see if the problem persists. If
nothing can be removed, you’ve found a minimal example – or you’ll find
the error on the way, that happens fairly often.

Best, Simon