LilyPond: formatting long footnotes

Question

When writing a long footnote with LilyPond 2.17.25, the text is not breaking into several lines or respecting the margin limits. I would love to have it set to justified alignment as well, if that is possible.

Here is a tiny example:

\version "2.17.25"
{
  \footnote #'(-1 . 1)
    \markup{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut eget ante venenatis mi consectetur ornare. Cras facilisis dictum venenatis. Donec.}
  a'4 b' c'' d''
}

Thanks a lot!

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '13 at 02:44

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The solution is to simply add \justify or \wordwrap to the \markup command, as:

\version "2.17.25"
{
  \footnote #'(-1 . 1)
    \markup\justify{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut eget ante venenatis mi consectetur ornare. Cras facilisis dictum venenatis. Donec.}
  a'4 b' c'' d''
}

answered Sep 17 '13 at 02:44

gilbertohasnofb

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Note that this doesn't work for `\wordwrap` if the string inside the `{}` block is surrounded with `"` marks – UTF_or_Death Oct 05 '19 at 16:04
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@UTF_or_Death Both `\justify` and `\wordwrap` need an argument without quotes. If you use quotes, it considers the argument as a single string and does not break it. – gilbertohasnofb Oct 27 '19 at 10:39

LilyPond: formatting long footnotes

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