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by Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 :: Rate this Message:

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I stopped doing sponsored work on LilyPond.  I'm forwarding your
message to the lilypond-devel forum.  Maybe you can someone there can
help you.

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Dear Sir,
I would like to start negotiating with you about me sponsoring the
feature in Lilypond which would add the full support of footnotes,
i.e. markup which would at certain place make a sign (a number, for
example) and at the footer (alternatively in the margin of the page)
of the page there would be the sentence of small paragraph with the
text of the footnote. The numbers/symbols to use should be
customizable to certain extent - for example numbering each page
separately, or numbering each piece separately, or numbering whole
book in a series.
The Lilypond should automatically keep the footnotes on the same
page where they occur and automatically calculate the space needed
in the footer for the footenote text to occupy.

This function is called for by many users already for several years
as I read in the lilypond forum, and I think it is still not there.
For musicologists this is the main feature - I am now setting up
means in Lilypond for my work which should span over 3 years,
editing about 800 pages of mediaeval Czech chant - the critical
edition - and footnote would be very requirement for this work to be
easy.

So, please, if you are willing to do this, please estimate the
expenses and perhaps I will pay it myself, or alternatively I will
try to find more people supporting the feature with the help of your
internet webpage - as you state on your internet pages.

Sincerely,
Jiri Zurek




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Re: Sponsoring a full support for footnotes in Lilypond

by Danalute :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@...> said:

> I stopped doing sponsored work on LilyPond.  I'm forwarding your
> message to the lilypond-devel forum.  Maybe you can someone there can
> help you.

MS Word, and might even be supported in more robust desktop publishing
software such as Quarkexpress, Pagemaker, or Framemaker.  

Footnotes are not always small citations, sometimes they are many
paragraphs long and need to be flowed across several pages in competition
with the main flow of prose and ilustrations (music in our case).  

This might not be a quickie which would be available for this user in a
reasonable timeframe, even if someone here cared to work on it at all.
Endnotes would be easier to implement, but for generality and our other
users we should do both if either, as many journals and some publishers
prefer endnotes.

Perhaps the user could be content to make illustrations in LP to adorn the
pages of the book typeset in MS Word?
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Re: Sponsoring a full support for footnotes in Lilypond

by Valentin Villenave :: Rate this Message:

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2009/2/2 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@...>:
> I stopped doing sponsored work on LilyPond.  I'm forwarding your
> message to the lilypond-devel forum.  Maybe you can someone there can
> help you.

I'm not sure anybody will be able to implement that anytime soon, but
it's indeed a mandatory feature for lots of people (myself included).

I've added it to our tracker to make sure it won't go forgotten:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=737

Cheers,
Valentin


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Re: Sponsoring a full support for footnotes in Lilypond

by Jiri Zurek (Prague) :: Rate this Message:

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Again, I am offering sponsorhip of the footnotes implementation into Lilypond. The possibility to include footnotes (and/or) endnotes in the Lilypond is crucial feature to musicologists. Do I find an able programmer who would be willing to take up the task?



I stopped doing sponsored work on LilyPond.  I'm forwarding your
message to the lilypond-devel forum.  Maybe you can someone there can
help you.

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