On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 6:12 AM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote:
> >> On 8 Sep 2021, at 03:33, Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> \footnote "*" \concat {
> >> "* This song has been translated by the leading Irish,"
> >> " Scotch Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish poets"
> >> " into their native languages for singing in each Celtic"
> >> " country and at Pan-Celtic Festivals."
>
> And though not related to footnotes, you should avoid \concatenating
> strings because it will result in single line of text. Granted, if your
> font size is small compared to the paper size, it is possible all that
> text could fit within the page margins. In general, though, you should
> consider using \wordwrap or \wordwrap-string:
>
> %%%%
> \markup \override #'(line-width . 40)
> \left-column {
> \bold \typewriter "\\wordwrap"
> \wordwrap {
> * This song has been translated by the leading Irish,
> Scotch Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish poets
> into their native languages for singing in each Celtic
> country and at Pan-Celtic Festivals.
> }
> \vspace #1 \draw-hline
> \bold \typewriter "\\wordwrap-string"
> \wordwrap-string
> #"* This song has been translated by the leading Irish,
> Scotch Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish poets
> into their native languages for singing in each Celtic
> country and at Pan-Celtic Festivals."
> }
> %%%%
>
Thanks. \wordwrap (or \wordwrap-string) is actually what I wanted to
achieve -- albeit as a footnote to a title. I just find that searching the
manual often turns up the most obtuse results first, and I saw an example
of something else that used \concat, and made an uneducated guess as to how
it worked.
For my purposes, I have another, less-satisfactory way to get a
footnote-like effect: I'm blending LilyPond and reStructuredText a la
Sphinx with the sphinxnotes-lilypond package. So, I'll just move the
footnote to the .rst document. But a guy can hope. 😉
