Re: Editing notes in a separate file

[Michael J. O'Donnell]

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Clearly, this doesn't require tagging "every note with a different tag" — you 
> simply tag the notes for different editions as you need them.
Perhaps I should have just answered this point directly. The problem is
that I don't know what the "different editions" will be. They are to be
determined in the future, and it is much better to develop them without
manually changing (even a copy of) the original data from the MS.

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>   
>> Thanks for pointing out \tag. I've already read up, and experimented
>> with it. It doesn't solve the problem, because it requires that I
>> anticipate every possible correction when entering the data from the MS.
>> The only way to get useful coverage is to tag every note with a
>> different tag, which is too complicated and invites other sorts of errors.
>>     
>
> Either I don't understand what you're doing, or you haven't properly 
> understood the use of \tag.
>
> I'm suggesting that you do something like
>
> \version "2.13.9"
> notes = \relative e'' {
>    e4 \tag #'MS {e} \tag #'corr {d} c d   |
>    e e e2   |
> }
> \markup { ORIGINAL: }
> \score { \keepWithTag #'MS \notes }
> \markup { CORRECTED: }
> \score { \keepWithTag #'corr \notes }
>
> Clearly, this doesn't require tagging "every note with a different tag" — you 
> simply tag the notes for different editions as you need them.
> What am I misunderstanding about your particular situation?
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.
>