Marcus Redivo <marcus.red...@whimsica.ca> writes:
> It appears that the content of an excluded tag still affects the
> octave in \relative-pitched music.
>
> I would expect the following two lines of code to produce identical output:
>
> \version "2.24.4"
> \keepWithTag #'A \relative { a \tag #'A { e' } \tag #'B { e' } }
> \keepWithTag #'B \relative { a \tag #'A { e' } \tag #'B { e' } }
>
> But in fact they do not: the E produced by the second line is an
> octave higher than the first (screenshot attached).
>
> The workaround is to leave off the tick in the B tag section, but this
> doesn’t make the intention clear:
>
> \keepWithTag #'B \relative { a \tag #'A { e' } \tag #'B { e } }
>
> Is this intended behaviour, or a bug?
It couldn't nor shouldn't possibly be anything else. \keepWithTag works
on the results of the \relative music function call, so obviously
\relative is evaluated before \keepWithTag is being evaluated.
--
David Kastrup
