Re: short instrument name setting

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Reinhold,

> Me too, but for more practical reasons: If you have many tags,  
> things get very complex

+1

> One of the most severe drawbacks of tags is also that you can't use
> keepWithTag if you have more than one tag (since you can only give  
> one tag to
> keepWithTag!). So you'll explicitly have to use removeWithTag for  
> each and
> every tag that you don't want. There is simply no way to say "remove
> everything except those parts marked with tags A, B or C".

There is a Scheme function for that floating around somewhere…

> Yes, I prefer global settings (e.g. adding/removing engravers or  
> changing
> context variables) over tags, if that's possible. This can be  
> easily put into
> an include file and you don't have to list dozens of removeWithTag  
> call all
> over the place. Much cleaner and much easier.

Agreed!
Kieren.