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
14 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
18 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
20 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
22 * dots & rest collisions.
24 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
32 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
36 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
40 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
42 * scoping for properties
45 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
49 this modifies \stem for the c2
56 - default abbreviation
60 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
68 - optimal pagebreaking.
70 * put errorlevel in Input class
76 * xdvi: PS magnifying glass.
78 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
80 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
82 * GS: /undefined in draw_beam after XDVI magnification.
89 - detect of 16/8 bit files
90 - examples to go with it.
93 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
94 - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
95 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
99 - output header info to MIDI too.
104 - shared lib on Solaris too.
106 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
109 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
111 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
127 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
130 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
131 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
132 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
133 - integrate IO checking into stream class
140 * add to MIDI output:
147 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
148 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
149 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
151 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
153 * accidentals per Voice_group
155 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
157 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
158 - help text /(c) notice?
160 - warning /errors/progress
161 - abort on error/warning; exit status
162 - quiet/ignore-version options
167 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
172 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
173 make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
174 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
176 - poor man's ascii output possible?
177 - MusixTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
179 - Common Music Notation
180 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
181 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
184 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
185 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
186 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
189 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
194 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
196 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
197 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
199 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
203 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
206 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
207 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
208 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
211 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
212 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
215 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
216 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
217 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
219 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
220 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
221 - spacing, national styles?
224 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
225 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
227 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
230 - caching breakpoints
232 - allowing users to set them.
234 - specify number of lines
235 - set linelength per line
252 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
254 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
269 * relative mode for pitch entering
271 * bracket (bracketplets)
273 * configure pitch_byte
275 * rest name configurable
281 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
283 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
285 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
287 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
289 * use Real for all y positions.
290 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
292 * half-sharps, half-flats
294 * adaptive accidental spacing.
296 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
298 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
300 * centered whole rest
302 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
303 - use tors feature in lily (?)
305 * declare notenametab?
307 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
312 - A decent scalar type
316 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
318 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
321 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
322 - decent TeX page layout
326 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
328 * textspanner: center position
333 - stack scripts in chords:
334 % fingering: footing:
335 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
337 - slur parts as a script
338 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
340 % toe to bheel four to five
346 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
348 * auxilliary file for caching info.
352 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
360 * Output abstract data structures associated with
363 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
365 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
367 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
374 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
376 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
378 * caching breakpoints
384 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
386 * move towards incremental algorithms.
388 * far fetched language ideas
389 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
390 - programming/macros input
392 * Global type registration.
394 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
395 Type t = get_type ( *p );
396 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
399 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
401 * benchmark band_matrices.
403 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
405 * a real convert-mudela
407 * dots into separate item.
409 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
411 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
415 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
417 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
422 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
423 - 1 thread per Translator
425 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties