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Re: short instrument name setting


From: Kieren MacMillan
Subject: Re: short instrument name setting
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:47:41 -0500

Hi Graham,

Use \tag.  It was invented for *precisely* this situation.
It should be somewhere in NR 3.

I avoid \tag at all costs — and suggest the same to other users, and warn newbies against it (or don't introduce them to it in the first place) — because it FORCES THE MIXTURE OF CONTENT AND PRESENTATION, which is A Bad Thing™.

If there's another (non-\tag) way to do the same thing, that's The Better Way™.

\tag is \evil (albeit *sometimes*, i.e. very rarely, necessary).

To everybody else who tried to help: read the bloody manual.
Especially NR 3.  There's lots of good stuff there.

Not if it recommends to use \tag in any case except "In Case Of Fire"…

Cheers,
Kieren.



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