On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 11:12, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> On 2018-11-01 2:59 am, Gianmaria Lari wrote:
> > Ahem.... I found another issue Aaron.
> >
> > Suppose you have a variable containing the music and the reference to
> > your
> > footnote code. Something like this:
> >
> > var = {a b c d \myfootnote e f g a}
> >
> >
> > If you 'use' the variable multiple time in your score you probably
> > don't
> > want to display the footnote multiple times. So if you write
> >
> > { \var \var \var }
> >
> >
> > you probably want just one footnote.
> >
> > So I tried to write
> >
> > var = {a b c d \tag #'footnotetag {} e f g a}
> >
> >
> > and then...
> >
> > {\pushToTag #'footnotetag \myfootnote \var \var \var}
> >
> >
> > but this does not compile.
> > Does exists a simple workaround to make it working? (I made different
> > experiments without success). If there is no simple solution, no
> > problem,
> > don't waste your time. Consider this just a curiosity. Thanks a lot,
> > gianmaria
>
> To clarify, when you use { \var \var \var }, is it your intention that
> you want the footnote to be shared amongst the multiple instantiations?
>
> If that is the case, then there is an edge case that would need to be
> addressed too. Imagine if \var occurs on multiple pages. Each one
> would ideally need a footnote on its own page, but if two (or more)
> instances of \var occur on the same page, then you would ideally want
> them to be able to share.
>
Sure, this is the first thing that came to mind. And yes, probably it would
be nice to be able to automatically manage the two situations. But I didn't
want to go so far; that's why I wanted to see if it existed a reasonable
solution with the tools I know (tag).
Thank you Aaron!
g.
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