--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy document? To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 12:59 AM On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
On Friday 10 October 2008 01:07:28 Gregory Maxwell
wrote:
How do you draw slurs in abc? (Trick question...)
Saying abc is a
replacement for lilypond is like saying that plain
text is a
replacement for LaTeX math, strictly correct but
with significant
compromises.
The right thing to do is to offer a limited subset
of the language
just as we don't allow SVG+js.
However, for years, no one is able to offer that
limited subset.
I don't know that anyone has bothered trying, or at least I know that I haven't. I had been under the impression that the blocker was the general architecture of the WikiTeX stuff which had nothing to do with lilypond. The scheme stuff should be relatively straight forward to disallow.
Are you saying that you now plan to bother trying?
I am sure that there are tons of cool things that can be done with different kinds of software if only developers would volunteer the time to work on the issues. Nikola is volunteering to work on abc and other developers seem to respond with "but Lilypond is cooler" All I know is Wikisource has been getting requests for music for years. After my prodding, I had been told that it is up to Lilypond to fix their issues before WMF will consider enabling the software. None of our devs seem willing to make Lilypond work. The bug has been open for 4 years. If we have someone volunteering to get abc working for Wikisource, what is the issue? Whatever the defects, it is a great improvement over page scans.
Birgitte SB