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.
On 10/3/08, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
On Friday 03 October 2008 18:56:17 Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
wrote:
2008/10/3 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2008/10/3 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2008/10/3 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu: > Birgitte SB wrote: >> Ability to transcribe musical scores in wikitext. > > Easily doable.
Close. It's been done but with security issues.
o_0 Dare I ask?
I wasn't aware that music could be used as a dangerous weapon either... surely it's just putting lots of pictures together?
The problem is that the solution people have proposed, LilyPond, includes a scripting language. There's a safe mode to disable some of the more unpleasant features, but apparently that's not safe enough: it can still easily be DoS'd by infinite loops. Info on LilyPond's safe mode:
There is the other solution, ABC notation. To my knowledge, it is fully adequate for our needs, and there are no security problems.