-IMPORTANT
+Features you cannot find in the doco as working, should be mentioned here.
+
+This is an assorted collection of stuff that will be done, might be
+done, or is an idea that I want to think about
- * update 20 pt table
+Most of the items are marked in the code as well, with full explanation.
+grep for TODO and ugh/ugr
+
+ - bf: abbrevs over whole note
+
+ * use properties for:
+ - Text_style
+ - default_octave
+ - plet?
+ - default_duration?
+ - default abbreviation
+ - Staff_sym size
+ - default tempo.
+ - font size
+ - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
+ - cadenza mode?
+ - MIDI instrument
+ - staff title
+
+ * check out egcs
+
+ * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
- * decent TeX page layout
+3RD PARTY BUGS:
- * per-pstaff item-widths
+ * ICE: spring-spacer::calcideal()
- * script priority
+ * collision.cc: 138, g++ errors
- * slur direction
+ * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
- * use own fonts/update musixtex fonts
+ * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
- * check return status in make_website
+ * read from mmap directly: bugreport to flex developers->
+ yy_scan_buffer in C++..
-This is an assorted collection of stuff that will be done, might be
-done, or is an idea that I want to think about
+ * (where are the) gcc compile warnings on linux
+
+PROJECTS
+
+ * Spring_spacer:
+ - write a faster Spring_spacer ( without matrices if possible )
+ - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
+ - used fixed point fp
+
+ * \header
+ - revise lexer mode
+ - write perl script for handling it into databases
+ - write TeX macros to generate titles
+
+ * Makefile stuff:
+ - have make dist produce tarball in out/ directory.
+ - Use Automake
+ - shared lib on Solaris too.
+ - check libtool
+ - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
+ and out-sun5/
+
+ * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
+
+ * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
+languages:
+ - italian
+ - german
+ - dutch
+ - swedish
+ .. ?
+
+ * chords
+ - guitar chords
+ - chord names
+ - basso continuo
+ - Syntax/parser
+ - MIDI output?
+ - typesetting
+
+ * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
+
+ * Debug logs:
+ - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
+ - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
+ - use dstream feature in mi2mu
+
+ * input converters
+ - NIFF?
+ - ABC?
+ - SMDL?
+
+ * robustification
+ - check write errors
+ - check read errors
+
-PARSER
- * Duration-> Musical_duration, typedef Rational Duration?
+ * placement of bar-numbers
-BUGS
+******************
- * hairpin width
+ \score { <
+ \melodic \type Staff { c'4 g'4 }
+ \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; hello4 bye4 < a chord > }
+ \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; bye4 hello4 }
+ \melodic { \id "Staff" ""; c'4 g'4 }
+ > }
- * help-lines for rests
+******************
- * [c8. c32 c32]
+ * add to MIDI output:
+ - tempo change
+ - repeat
+ - slurs
+ - dynamics etc.
- * cis ( | ) cis
+ * grace notes
+ - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
+ (which is at Voice_gravs level)
+ - make encapsulated spacing problems.
- * lilypond - -> crash
+ * On-demand loading of simple-engravers
-SEVERELY LACKING:
+ * accidentals per Voice_group
- * SPEED!
+ * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
- * grace notes
+ * Output class, handles : (smallish)
+ - help text /(c) notice?
+ - version line
+ - warning /errors/progress
+ - abort on error/warning; exit status
+ - quiet/ignore-version options
+ - logfile output
+
+ * piano staff
-FURTHER FOR ORCHESTRAL SCORE:
+ * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
+ - scripts
+ - text
+ - slur start/end
+
+ * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
+ make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
+ Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
+
+ - poor man's ascii output possible?
+ - MusixTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
+ - NIFF ?
+ - Common Music Notation
+ - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
+ - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
+
+
+ * Documentation
+ - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
+ - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
+ - a tutorial
+
+ * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
+ - Glissando
+ - trill
+ - bracket
+
+ * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
+ - [c8. c32 c32]
+ - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
+ - general shaving on Beam and Stem
+ - use plet grouping
+ - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
+ - beams over bars
+
+ * Redo fonts
+ - adapt for multiple font sizes.
+ - hack up mf sources for decent spacing info (and then
+ read AFM/TFM directly, for text too)
+
+ * Font support:
+ - mixed fontsizes
+
+ * lines:
+ - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
+ - set different line sizes / thicknesses
+ - stem down too far right
+ - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
+
+ * Collisions
+ - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
+ < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
+
+ * Keys:
+ - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
+ - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
+ besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
+ - key transposition.
+ - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
+ - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
+ - spacing, national styles?
+
+ * Support for TAB
+ - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
+ - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
+
+ * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
+
+ * breaking:
+ - caching breakpoints
+ - saving them
+ - allowing users to set them.
+ - penalties
+ - specify number of lines
+ - set linelength per line
+
+ * Rhythmic staff.
+
+ * Baroque superstaff
+
+SEVERELY LACKING:
+
+ * SPEED!
* multibar rests
- * barnumbers, markers
+ * markers
- * abbreviations c4=16
INPUTLANGUAGE
- * relative mode for pitch entering
+ * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
- * configure pitch_byte
+ * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
+ voices
+
+ * <c f a>4 ?
+
+ * Viola mode?
- * special key.
+ @c c g e g
+ for
+ c g es g,
+
+ @A c g e g
+ for
+ cis gis e gis
+
+ * relative mode for pitch entering
- * figured bass?
+ * bracket (bracketplets)
+
+ * configure pitch_byte
* rest name configurable
* Raw request syntax
- * subtime with Subtle_reqs
-
SMALLISH PROJECTS
- * use rest size in Collision
+ * progress when creating MIDI elts.
- * bugreport to doc++ devel: struct not in class hier; public
- virtual baseclasses
+ * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
- * cleanup lily-proto.hh and proto.hh
+ * merge Atom and Symbol
- * half-sharps, half-flats
-
- * key undo
+ * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
- * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE EN
+ * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
- * rpm package buildroot
+ * use Real for all y positions.
- * indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
+ * half-sharps, half-flats
- * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
+ * adaptive accidental spacing.
- * key transposition
-
- * caching breakpoints / saving them.
+ * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
- * use dstream feature in mi2mu
+ * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
- * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
+ * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
- - declare notenametab?
+ * centered whole rest
- * use tors feature in lily
+ * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
+ - use tors feature in lily (?)
- * do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
- besides lists of flats/sharps
+ * declare notenametab?
* midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
- * fix Staff_elem::width() derivs to use offset_
-
* parshape
- * read from mmap directly: bugreport to flex developers->
- yy_scan_buffer in C++..
+ * Flower types:
+ - A decent scalar type
+ - String hash
+ - Pointer hash
* binsearch/hash for identifiers
* stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
- * Lookup::tex_glissando, Lookup::tex_bracket, (use texbeam.cc as an
- example.)
-
- * Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ * TeX stuff:
+ - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ - decent TeX page layout
- * command priority into enum
+ * lily \tempo
- * C meter iso 4/4
+ * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
* textspanner: center position
- * script-spacing
-
* Brackets
-
- * caching of Register_group_register hierarchies.
-
- * use (char *) iso. String for communication between lexer and
- parser.
-
- * configure idealspacing: arithmetic
-
- * add (good guess of) width to lyric items
-
- * midi output: eat-up dynamic, key/meter/tempo changes, and
-write them neatly
-
- * LilyPond .deb
-
-DOC
-
- * beam generation.
-
- * all errors
-
- * a test suite
-
-FUTURE
-
- * tie a ~ b, move slur reg into voice-group.
-
- * Reg_configure_request
-
- * bring Collision::do_pre_processing to haircutter
-
- * slurs per voicegroup.
-
- * slur parts as a script
- * mixed fontsizes
+ * Scripts:
+ - stack scripts in chords:
+ % fingering: footing:
+ < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
+ - script-spacing
+ - slur parts as a script
+ - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
+
+ % toe to bheel four to five
+ % ^_u 4_5
+ % -
+ % --|x-- --|x--
+ % --|--- --|---
+ % --|--- --|---
+ (where "to" is a tiny bow)
+
+ * auxilliary file for caching info.
- * put scripts on bars
+ * Text_crescendo
- * glissando
+ * clean solution for staffsize in items.
- * guitar chord
+ * revise calcideal
- * Junk Staff_column, and find the requests while walking the Voices.?
+ * volta
- * MIDI repeat: make lily understand repeats
+IDEAS
- * better beamslope calculation: QLP for beams?
- * implement better breaking algorithm
+ * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
- * Text_crescendo
+ * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
- * clean solution for staffsize in items.
+ * use an embedded language: Python
+ for:
+ - Score_elems
+ - Engraver
+ - Translators
+ - Complex mudela?
- * merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
+ * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
- * revise calcideal
+ * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
- * volta
+ * caching breakpoints
- * piano staff
+ * #c <-> cis
- * vertical spanner
+ * breath marks
-IDEAS
+ * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
- * scoping in Lexer?
+ * move towards incremental algorithms.
- * integrate Register/Midi stuff
+ * far fetched language ideas
+ - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
+ - programming/macros input
- * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
+ * Global type registration.
- * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
+ My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
+ Type t = get_type ( *p );
+ if ( t <= get_type( q ))
+ ..
- * use an embedded language: scheme, lisp, S-lang, Perl, GUILE, ?
- for :
- - Items/Spanners
- - Registers
+ * naming of Voice_group/Voice
- * y -dims in internote?
+ * benchmark band_matrices.
- * hack up mf sources for decent spacing info (and then maybe
- read TFM directly)
+ * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
- * merge Atom and Symbol?
+ * a real convert-mudela
- * merge common code of Item, Atom/Molecule
+ * dots into separate item.
- * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
+ * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
- * Staff_group, Score_request_register.
+ * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
- * SHIT: meters/bars should be aligned, which is difficult if
- we get different keychanges in different staffs.
+ * Klavarskribo?
- * Integrating (objectiveC) MusicKit with LilyPond
-
- * MusixTeX output possible?
+ * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
- * PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
+ - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
- * caching breakpoints
+ * pushgroup/popgroup
- * use exceptions iso assert?
+ * whole head on ledger line
- * #c <-> cis
+ * multi threading?
+ - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
+ - 1 thread per Translator
- * breath marks
+ * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties
- * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
+ * Make general "spanning"-elements and "placer"-elements