[Abc-discuss] go on with the ABC standard

[Jean-François M. <mo...@gm...>]

Hi everybody,

As the new mailing list at groups.io is not ready yet, as this new list
will be for ABC users, but not for software developers, as the ABC
standard should be better discussed in an other list, as time passes
on, and as it becomes urgent to restart the standardization of ABC,
here are some ideas:

- for people interested in ABC standardization and software development,
  I propose to use the old list abc...@li... (To:).

- we need some storage area to put the newer versions of the standard.
  We could use some cloud (onedrive, dropbox, google docs..), but the
  simplest way would be to use a site used for software development as
  github, gitlab, sourceforge... The advantage would be the version
  control (history of the changes).

- which file type for the documentation?
  The ABC standard is actually written using some wordpress tool and we
  don't know the exact content of the original file.
  An alternate and free way would be to use some Markdown dialect, but
  the insertion of javascript (for the examples - see below) in the
  documentation is not easy.
  What do you think about pure HTML?
  More to think: one or any files...

- it is nice to have living examples in the documentation.
  That's what I did for abcm2ps/abc2svg: the ABC examples are generated
  on the fly by the browsers of the visitors by abc2svg.
  But abc2svg is not the only web program which does so; I am thinking
  about abcjs, and there may be other ones I am not aware of.
  So, we have to find how we can offer the visitors a way to choose the
  software they prefer in documentation rendering.
  This would also show the capabilities (and bugs!) of each one...

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