User talk:UninvitedCompany/archive4
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Our recent interactions
I am uncomfortable with a couple if interactions we have had recently. You are a user I highly respect, someone whose integrity is without question. Early upon coming here you made some very friendly and thoughtful comments to me on IRC which convinced me not to leave the project. You are also one of the core personalities here, and for that reason as well I strongly prefer not to engage in any sort of personality conflict with you. If there are things which concern you, I am willing to discuss. I think there are some meta-issues which we see differently, but I assure you I do not desire to be disruptive nor antagonistic to the best interests of the project. Cheers, Sam Spade
Lilypond
I agree that Lilypond is likely to be the best free-software score typesetting solution for the forseeable future, but I'd still prefer if we avoided simply wholesale embedding Lilypond code into Wikipedia articles, like we do with LaTeX math code. IMO, wikitext ought to remain as close to semantically-relevant as possible, so it can be rendered in a number of ways. LaTeX is so far the only external language that can be directly embedded, and it's not a particularly bad one, because only a subset is allowed anyway, and it's well-defined and, for the most part, semantically meaningful (perhaps not ideal, but not horrendous).
My preferred solution would be to start with a simple markup that would be rendered through Lilypond, but which would be semantically clear enough to be conceivably converted to some other format if others wish to render through a different backend. I guess my main issue is that I think we ought to store notational information in some sort of notation-markup language rather than a typesetting language. Lilypond may be slightly better than rendering with your own preferred software and uploading the PNG, but only slightly, IMO. --Delirium 01:18, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)