Re: tags

[David Kastrup]

Gianmaria Lari <gianmarialari@gmail.com> writes:

> Ciao David,
>
> [....]
>
>> At any rate, \pushToTag's documentation states:
>>
>>        Sometimes you want to splice some music at a particular place in an
>>     existing music expression.  You can use ‘\pushToTag’ and ‘\appendToTag’
>>     for adding material at the front or end of the ‘elements’ of an
>> existing
>>     music construct.  Not every music construct has ‘elements’, but
>>     sequential and simultaneous music are safe bets:
>>
>> But you are not pushing to sequential or simultaneous music but rather
>> to the second a , a single note.  This needs to be a sequential music
>> expression.
>
>
>  Ahhhhh!!!! I made another mistake when I "distilled" the code before
> posting it!!
>
> I know very well the part of the documentation you quoted.
> So this is was I wanted to write:
>
> music = {a a \tag#'here {} a}
>
>
> Is that right? Can \tag act on {} instead of {a} or <a> ?

Yes, {} is fine.  But even if you could push ~ here, the result would be
equivalent to

music = {a a a~}

since articulations "happen" at the start of the event they are attached
to.

-- 
David Kastrup