[Foundation-l] Strategy document?

[Gregory Maxwell]

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.


On 10/3/08, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at 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 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > 2008/10/3 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> >> 2008/10/3 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>> >>> 2008/10/3 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at 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.
>
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