Features you cannot find in the doco as working, should be mentioned here.
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This is an assorted collection of stuff that will be done, might be
done, or is an idea that I want to think about
Most of the items are marked in the code as well, with full explanation.
grep for TODO and ugh/ugr
- * Generate TeX titles from MudelaHeader
+0.2:
- * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily
+ * latex quirk?
- * virtualise PCols to make encapsulated spacing problems
-
- * Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
+ * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
- * context in spring-spacer.
+ * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
+ - configure.in
+ - clean-fonts.sh
- * don't count bars which are not on first beat.
+ * fix MIDI
- * generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
- and out-sun5/
+ * mudela-convert.
- * derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
+ * nicen examples:
+ - remove all \multi
+ - break-up heavily-nested score blocks
- * check libtool, automake
+ * --metafont
- * have make dist produce tarball in out/ directory.
+ * disable spaces in TeX stuff
- * write a faster Spring_spacer ( without matrices if possible )
+ * height of dyns.
+
+ * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
- * A decent scalar type
+ * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
- * relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
+ * dots & rest collisions.
- * naming of Voice_group/Voice
+ * add a screenshot to the website. :)
- * benchmark band_matrices.
+ * documentation
+ - introduction?
+ - info?
+ - LaTeX?
+ - more manpages?
- * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
+ * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
- * get rid of gif files.
+ * versioning for Feta
- * dots into separate item.
+ * bf: abbrevs over whole note
- * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
+ * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
+ which is irritating.
- * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
+ * The `3' in the meter key is a one or two pixels too thin (at 600dpi)
+ in the middle:
- * Klavarskribo?
+ * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
- * return status on exit
+ * tie/slur dir & curvature
- * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
+ * stem len adjustable
+
+ * mindist for spanners
- * rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
- * Global type registration.
- My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
- Type t = get_type ( *p );
- if ( t <= get_type( q ))
- ..
+STUFF
- * progress when creating MIDI elts.
- * pushgroup/popgroup
+ * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
- * whole head on ledger line
+ * scoping for properties
- * piano staff
+ { c4
+ \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
+ c2
+ }
+
+ this modifies \stem for the c2
- * update 20 pt table
+ * 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
- * decent TeX page layout
+ * page handling:
+ - papersizes
+ - PS output
+ - optimal pagebreaking.
- * a tutorial
+ * put errorlevel in Input class
+
+ * AFM for font input?
3RD PARTY BUGS:
- * ICE: spring-spacer::calcideal()
+ * gdb on RedHat 5
- * collision.cc: 138, g++ errors
+ * xdvi: PS in magnifying glass.
- * bugreport to doc++ devel: struct not in class hier; public
- virtual baseclasses
+ * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
- * DOC++ bugs/newer version?
+PROJECTS
- * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
+ * Unicode support?
+ - 16 bit Strings
+ - -u switch
+ - detect of 16/8 bit files
+ - examples to go with it.
- * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
+ * Spring_spacer:
+ - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
+ - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
+ - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
+ - used fixed point fp
- * read from mmap directly: bugreport to flex developers->
- yy_scan_buffer in C++..
+ * \header
+ - output header info to MIDI too.
- * (where are the) gcc compile warnings on linux
-LILY BUGS
+ * Makefile stuff:
+ - shared lib on Solaris too.
+ - check libtool
- \score { <
- \melodic { \id "Staff" ""; c'4 g'4 }
- \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; hello4 bye4 < a chord > }
- \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; bye4 hello4 }
- \melodic { \id "Staff" ""; c'4 g'4 }
- > }
+ * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
-PROJECTS
+ * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
+languages:
+ - italian
+ - german
+ - dutch
+ - swedish
+ .. ?
+
+ * chords
+ - guitar chords
+ - chord names
+ - basso continuo
+ - Syntax/parser
+ - MIDI output?
+ - typesetting
- * emacs-mode for mudela
+ * 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
+ - integrate IO checking into stream class
* input converters
- NIFF?
- dynamics etc.
* grace notes
- - adapt for multiple font sizes.
- make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
(which is at Voice_gravs level)
- - move stem, beam, slur into baseclass to adapt for (fixed
- size) grace notes.
+ - make encapsulated spacing problems.
+
+ * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
* accidentals per Voice_group
- quiet/ignore-version options
- logfile output
+ * piano staff
+
* elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
- scripts
- text
- slur start/end
+ * cautionary accidental
+
* Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
- make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, PostScript, Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
+ 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.)
+ - MusiXTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
- NIFF ?
- Common Music Notation
- PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
- - Move PScore, Items, Spanners etc. into libmutype.a
-
- * separate Score_elem settings in user-settable (properties
- .. ) and non-user-settable part. Maybe use something like X-resources:
- "Staff=oboe*dir: 0", "Staff=*.Voice_group=solo*dir: 1"
+ - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
+
+ * Documentation
+ - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
+ - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
+ - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
+ - a tutorial
* TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
- Glissando
* Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
- [c8. c32 c32]
- - interbeam height
- - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
+ - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
- general shaving on Beam and Stem
- use plet grouping
- - abbreviations [c2 c2]1/2
- separate visual from rhythmic info even more
- beams over bars
-
- * Redo font support
- - rename mf fonts to avoid conflicts with musixtex
- - use own fonts/update musixtex fonts/find older (c)-less fonts
- - hack up mf sources for decent spacing info (and then
- read AFM/TFM directly, for text too)
- - use MF to generate rules.
- - rewrite : make a metafont iso font
+ * Redo fonts
+ - adapt for multiple font sizes.
* 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
- - bring Collision::do_pre_processing to haircutter
- left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
< \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
- redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
- add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
-
* should adjust stemlength for flag number.
* breaking:
- allowing users to set them.
- penalties
- specify number of lines
- - set linelength per line
+
+ * Rhythmic staff.
+
+ * Baroque superstaff
SEVERELY LACKING:
* multibar rests
- * barnumbers, markers
+ * markers
- * abbreviations c4=16
INPUTLANGUAGE
* <c f a>4 ?
- * should have \require{package.ly} to read req'd packages.
-
* Viola mode?
@c c g e g
* bracket (bracketplets)
- * \duration 8; e*2/3
-
* configure pitch_byte
- * figured bass?
-
* rest name configurable
* Raw request syntax
-PROJECTS
-
- * Do RTTI i.s.o. static_name(), name() and request-junk.
-
SMALLISH PROJECTS
+ * progress when creating MIDI elts.
+
* A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
* lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
- * fix Egler definitions ( see tex/eglerdefs.tex )
-
- * replace Score_elem member access by get()/set() methods, to enable
- future embedded code.
-
- * --fast/--draft: leave out constraints
-
* write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
- * write Rest_collision
-
- * use Real for y positions.
-
- * shared lib on Solaris too.
-
- * cleanup lily-proto.hh and proto.hh
+ * use Real for all y positions.
+ - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
* half-sharps, half-flats
* adaptive accidental spacing.
- * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
-
- * indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
-
* handle EOF graciously in error messages.
* caching Item/spanner dimensions.
* centered whole rest
- * use dstream feature in mi2mu
-
* qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
- use tors feature in lily (?)
- * declare symtab
-
* declare notenametab?
* midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
- * parshape
+ * Flower types:
+ - A decent scalar type
+ - String hash
+ - Pointer hash
* binsearch/hash for identifiers
* stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
- * Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ * TeX stuff:
+ - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ - decent TeX page layout
* lily \tempo
* textspanner: center position
- * script-spacing
-
* Brackets
- * use (char *) iso. String for communication between lexer and
- parser.
-
- * configure idealspacing: arithmetic spacing
-
-DOC
- * Score_elem structure.
-
- * all errors
-
- * config of TeX macros
-
- * a test suite
-
- * hacking-HOWTO
+ * 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:
-FUTURE
+ % toe to bheel four to five
+ % ^_u 4_5
+ % -
+ % --|x-- --|x--
+ % --|--- --|---
+ % --|--- --|---
+ (where "to" is a tiny bow)
* auxilliary file for caching info.
- * Reg_configure_request
-
- * slur parts as a script
-
- * mixed fontsizes
-
- * put scripts on bars
-
- * guitar chord
-
* Text_crescendo
* clean solution for staffsize in items.
IDEAS
- * derive PCol from Score_elem? More in Score_elems? Spacing?
-
- * scoping in Lexer: do general id- assignments in mudela.
-
- ID '=' EXPR;
+ * Output abstract data structures associated with
+Mudela.
* create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
* move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
- * use an embedded language: Python
+ * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
for:
- Score_elems
- Engraver
* y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
- * merge Atom and Symbol?
-
- * merge common code of Item, Atom/Molecule
-
* Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
* caching breakpoints
* used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
- * default convert mudela-file.ly -> mudela-file.tex
- - rename {standchen,scsii-menuetto,...}.tex
+ * move towards incremental algorithms.
- * stack scripts in chords:
- % fingering: footing:
- < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
+ * far fetched language ideas
+ - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
+ - programming/macros input
+
+ * Global type registration.
- * stackparameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
+ My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
+ Type t = get_type ( *p );
+ if ( t <= get_type( q ))
+ ..
- % toe to bheel four to five
- % ^_u 4_5
- % -
- % --|x-- --|x--
- % --|--- --|---
- % --|--- --|---
- (where "to" is a tiny bow)
+ * naming of Voice_group/Voice
- * move towards incremental algorithms.
+ * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
+
+ * a real convert-mudela
+
+ * dots into separate item.
+
+ * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
+
+ * Klavarskribo?
+
+ * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
+
+ * rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
+
+ * pushgroup/popgroup
+
+ * multi threading?
+ - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
+ - 1 thread per Translator
- * design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
+ * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties