1 Features you cannot find in the doco as working, should be mentioned here.
3 This is an assorted collection of stuff that will be done, might be
4 done, or is an idea that I want to think about
6 Most of the items are marked in the code as well, with full explanation.
7 grep for TODO and ugh/ugr
11 * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
13 * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
19 - break-up heavily-nested score blocks
23 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
27 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
29 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
31 * dots & rest collisions.
33 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
41 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
45 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
47 * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
50 * The `3' in the meter key is a one or two pixels too thin (at 600dpi)
53 * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
55 * tie/slur dir & curvature
59 * mindist for spanners
66 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
68 * scoping for properties
71 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
75 this modifies \stem for the c2
82 - default abbreviation
86 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
94 - optimal pagebreaking.
96 * put errorlevel in Input class
104 * xdvi: PS in magnifying glass.
106 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
113 - detect of 16/8 bit files
114 - examples to go with it.
117 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
118 - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
119 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
120 - used fixed point fp
123 - output header info to MIDI too.
127 - shared lib on Solaris too.
130 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
132 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
148 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
151 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
152 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
153 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
154 - integrate IO checking into stream class
161 * add to MIDI output:
168 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
169 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
170 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
172 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
174 * accidentals per Voice_group
176 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
178 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
179 - help text /(c) notice?
181 - warning /errors/progress
182 - abort on error/warning; exit status
183 - quiet/ignore-version options
188 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
193 * cautionary accidental
195 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
196 make ofi2 TeX, MusiXTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
197 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
199 - poor man's ascii output possible?
200 - MusiXTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
202 - Common Music Notation
203 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
204 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
207 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
208 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
209 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
212 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
217 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
219 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
220 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
222 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
226 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
229 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
230 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
231 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
234 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
235 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
238 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
239 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
240 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
242 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
243 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
244 - spacing, national styles?
247 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
248 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
250 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
253 - caching breakpoints
255 - allowing users to set them.
257 - specify number of lines
274 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
276 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
291 * relative mode for pitch entering
293 * bracket (bracketplets)
295 * configure pitch_byte
297 * rest name configurable
303 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
305 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
307 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
309 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
311 * use Real for all y positions.
312 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
314 * half-sharps, half-flats
316 * adaptive accidental spacing.
318 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
320 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
322 * centered whole rest
324 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
325 - use tors feature in lily (?)
327 * declare notenametab?
329 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
332 - A decent scalar type
336 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
338 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
341 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
342 - decent TeX page layout
346 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
348 * textspanner: center position
353 - stack scripts in chords:
354 % fingering: footing:
355 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
357 - slur parts as a script
358 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
360 % toe to bheel four to five
366 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
368 * auxilliary file for caching info.
372 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
380 * Output abstract data structures associated with
383 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
385 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
387 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
394 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
396 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
398 * caching breakpoints
404 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
406 * move towards incremental algorithms.
408 * far fetched language ideas
409 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
410 - programming/macros input
412 * Global type registration.
414 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
415 Type t = get_type ( *p );
416 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
419 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
421 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
423 * a real convert-mudela
425 * dots into separate item.
427 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
431 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
433 * rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
438 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
439 - 1 thread per Translator
441 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties