Re: Documentation clarification?

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

>> Toward the bottom of the section (p. 196 of the PDF), right above
>> "See Also", it
>> says: "The argument of the \tag command should be a symbol." I just
>> successfully
>> used \tag with \override commands, and I read "symbol" as referring
>> to something
>> that actually prints on the output page.
>>
>> E.g., the following works and I didn't think it should, based on the
>> docs:
>> optSlur = \tag #'withSlur { \once \override Slur #'transparent = ##t }
>
> Hmm.  "symbol" is either an old term left over from an earlier version
> of \tag, or it has some special meaning in lilypond architecture.

\tag takes two arguments: a Scheme symbol (the #'withSlur) and a music
expression (the \override expression in the example).

nicolas