On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 6:57 PM Kieren MacMillan < kie...@kierenmacmillan.info> wrote:
> Hi Paolo, > > > In fact, a footer is not simply an element that is placed on the bottom > of a page. It also has to be recurrent in order to be a footer. > > To be precise, it has to *have the potential* to recur: a footer on a > one-page document doesn't recur, but it's still a footer. > > Yes, that's more or less what I wrote later. > As I see it, the problem here is that the documentation isn't clear that > "copyright" is simply a property that happens to be "pre-defined", in the > sense that it's referenced somewhere [specifically titling-init.ly > > oddFooterMarkup] in the standard distro. It could just as easily been > called 'kieren' or anything else. > > Put another way: The copyright property isn't a footer, nor is it coupled > with the footer in any way *except* that the default titling includes it on > the first page [only]. > > This behavior is a bit ambiguous, IMHO. I still prefer to have these fields totally decoupled. I think it's reasonable that the copyright appears at the bottom, as default, but I don't understand the choice to couple it to the footer of the first page. Best, P
