[Foundation-l] Strategy document?

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 05:59:40 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at 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.



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