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/ug
11 * ly2dvi seams to eat accents as in \'el\'egant
13 * libtoolize flowerlib
19 * add full coriolan to website.
21 * robustify Beam (in case of no stems, 32nd notes)
23 * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
27 * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
35 - break-up heavily-nested score blocks
37 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
39 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
41 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
43 * dots & rest collisions.
45 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
53 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
57 * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
60 * The `3' in the meter key is a one or two pixels too thin (at 600dpi)
63 * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
68 * clefs: The names I'd like are of the form
70 [FGC]n{[_^]8} F, G or C clef, on nth line, subscripted
71 or superscripted with an 8.
73 G, G2, treble, (== current `violin') G clef on second line.
74 F, F4, bass (== current `bass' ) F clef on fourth line
75 G_8, G2_8 G clef on 2nd line, with 8 subscript
76 G^8 G clef on 2nd line with 8 superscript
77 C1, soprano (==current `soprano') C clef on first line.
78 C2, (==current `mezzosoprano') C clef on second line
79 C3, alto (==current `alto') C clef on third line
80 C4, tenor (==current `tenor') C clef on fourth line
81 C5 (==current `baritone') C clef on fifth line)
85 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
87 * scoping for properties
90 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
94 this modifies \stem for the c2
101 - default abbreviation
105 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
112 - optimal pagebreaking.
114 * put errorlevel in Input class
116 * AFM for font input?
121 * tried egcs 1.0.2: failed on lily/stem.cc -> flower/include/interval.hh
122 should narrow down and send bug report
124 * xdvi: PS in magnifying glass.
126 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
133 - detect of 16/8 bit files
134 - examples to go with it.
137 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
138 - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
139 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
140 - used fixed point fp
143 - output header info to MIDI too.
147 - shared lib on Solaris too.
149 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
151 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
168 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
171 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
172 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
173 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
174 - integrate IO checking into stream class
181 * add to MIDI output:
188 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
189 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
190 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
192 * accidentals per Voice_group
194 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
195 - help text /(c) notice?
197 - warning /errors/progress
198 - abort on error/warning; exit status
199 - quiet/ignore-version options
204 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
209 * cautionary accidental
211 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
212 make ofi2 TeX, MusiXTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
213 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
216 - Common Music Notation
217 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
218 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
221 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
222 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
223 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
226 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
230 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
232 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
233 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
235 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
239 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
242 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
243 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
244 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
247 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
248 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
251 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
252 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
253 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
255 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
256 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
257 - spacing, national styles?
260 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
261 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
263 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
266 - caching breakpoints
269 - specify number of lines
280 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
282 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
297 * relative mode for pitch entering
299 * bracket (bracketplets)
301 * configure pitch_byte
303 * rest name configurable
309 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
311 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
313 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
315 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
317 * use Real for all y positions.
318 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
320 * half-sharps, half-flats
322 * adaptive accidental spacing.
324 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
326 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
328 * centered whole rest
330 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
331 - use tors feature in lily (?)
333 * declare notenametab?
335 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
338 - A decent scalar type
342 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
344 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
347 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
348 - decent TeX page layout
352 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
354 * textspanner: center position
359 - stack scripts in chords:
360 % fingering: footing:
361 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
363 - slur parts as a script
364 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
366 % toe to bheel four to five
372 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
374 * auxilliary file for caching info.
378 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
386 * Output data structures of Mudela in XML/SGML.
388 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
390 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
392 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
399 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
401 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
403 * caching breakpoints
409 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
411 * move towards incremental algorithms.
413 * far fetched language ideas
414 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
415 - programming/macros input
417 * Global type registration.
419 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
420 Type t = get_type ( *p );
421 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
424 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
426 * a real convert-mudela
428 * dots into separate item.
430 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
434 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
438 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties