Re: Documentation clarification?

[Graham Percival]

On 15-Mar-06, at 5:21 PM, Geoff Horton wrote:

> (Sorry to keep hammering on the docs--I'm working on a project that 
> requires me
> to look at them closely and I keep finding stuff.)

No, please keep these coming!  They're great.  :)
BTW, I respond to each email individually so that somebody searching 
the mailist can see that the issue has been closed.  It's a bit 
redundant, but I think it's worth it.

> 2.7.38, section 8.2.8, dealing with different editions and the \tag 
> command:
>
> 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.  
Han-Wen, is it correct to write:
The argument of the \tag command should be a music expression.
?

Cheers,
- Graham