[Foundation-l] Strategy document?

[Nikola Smolenski]

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 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.