[JW Lua] Finale phaseout

[Robert Patterson]

MuseScore has a development environment based on JavaScript. The approach
is similar to that for Finale, in that there is an object framework that
gives direct access to the document, but it does not appear to be as
complete as the PDK Framework. Here is a link
<https://musescore.github.io/MuseScore_PluginAPI_Docs/plugins/html/index.html>
to the Doxygen pages. There seems still to be a lot of active development
going on with it.

Dorico uses Lua for scripting. I am still researching it, so I don't have
much more information than that. (I haven't found the doc pages for it, if
they are online.) Right now, Lua scripts access an application object that
allows them to drive the user interface. There does not seem to be any
lower level access to the document data. However, I have found a lot of
chatter about creating lower level access (which was in 2022). Once I have
it installed, I may be able to find out more.
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