Sorry, I probably shouldn't have used the word "footnote". I know how to put a line of text after a score using \markup. I use that all the time. I can see how the footnote command is a nice way to indicate the exact spot in a score that indicates the subject of that line. I'm trying to solve a different problem. I want to put the English name of a note inside a line of text, and also to be able to use a \transpose command to change that name so that it is correct when I apply a transposition to the entire score.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM Lucas Pinke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! Check out the footnote command: > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/creating-footnotes > > Em seg., 8 de set. de 2025, 20:30, Eric Benson <[email protected]> > escreveu: > >> I would like to add a footnote at the bottom of a score, something like >> >> The F note in measure 29 is sometimes sung as G instead. >> >> However, the score is often transposed to a different key, so I don't >> want to "hard-code" the note name in the footnote. I would like it to be >> transposed to the correct key. For example, in this case the score is >> written in Ab, but it is transposed to Eb, so the footnote should read >> >> The C note in measure 29 is sometimes sung as D instead. >> >> Is there a simple way to do this with LilyPond? The NoteNames context >> controls printing of note names, but I don't really want to print it, I >> just want to pass it as a string in markup. >> >
