Re: Tags template, for markup?

[David Kastrup]

Ben <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm learning very quickly just how incredibly powerful the tags system
> can be, but today my brain just can't get past one hurdle.
>
> I am hoping someone can help me to grasp this: suppose I would like to
> setup a tag template (for my visualizing and learning) so I can add
> some markup to one note in an instrument's part, but have it not show
> in the full score. I understand how to include things like overrides
> and such in a tag area:
>
> (i.e.
>
> \tag #'partonlytag { \once \override DynamicLineSpanner.staff-padding = #8 }
>
>
> )
>
>
> but how does this work when the tagged content is something like
> markup, which applies *directly* to a note in the stream? I can't
> attach the markup tag content without errors,

Not?  Why not?

Something like

{ c'1-\tag partonlytag -"hi!" }

should work fine.

-- 
David Kastrup