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 * spurious "Junk beam" warnings
13 * standchen: warning: Excentric column (Meter dims?)
15 * optimal pagebreaking.
17 * put errorlevel in Input class
21 * Make general "spanning"-elements and "placer"-elements
23 - naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella, Feta?
24 - bf: abbrevs over whole note
25 - scoping for properties
28 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
32 this modifies \stem for the c2
39 - default abbreviation
43 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
48 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
50 * Score_bar/Piano_braces, are *not* ordinary bars
54 * ICE: spring-spacer::calcideal()
56 * collision.cc: 138, g++ errors
58 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
60 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
67 - detect of 16/8 bit files
68 - examples to go with it.
71 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
72 - use straight QP to find minimal "fitting force"
73 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
77 - write perl script for handling it into databases
78 - write TeX macros to generate titles
81 - have make dist produce tarball in out/ directory.
83 - shared lib on Solaris too.
85 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
88 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
90 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
106 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
109 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
110 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
111 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
112 - integrate IO checking into stream class
119 * placement of bar-numbers
124 \melodic \type Staff { c'4 g'4 }
125 \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; hello4 bye4 < a chord > }
126 \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; bye4 hello4 }
127 \melodic { \id "Staff" ""; c'4 g'4 }
132 * add to MIDI output:
139 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
140 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
141 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
143 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
145 * accidentals per Voice_group
147 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
149 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
150 - help text /(c) notice?
152 - warning /errors/progress
153 - abort on error/warning; exit status
154 - quiet/ignore-version options
159 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
164 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
165 make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
166 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
168 - poor man's ascii output possible?
169 - MusixTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
171 - Common Music Notation
172 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
173 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
176 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
177 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
180 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
185 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
187 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
188 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
190 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
194 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
197 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
198 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
199 - stem down too far right
200 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
203 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
204 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
207 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
208 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
209 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
211 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
212 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
213 - spacing, national styles?
216 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
217 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
219 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
222 - caching breakpoints
224 - allowing users to set them.
226 - specify number of lines
227 - set linelength per line
244 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
246 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
261 * relative mode for pitch entering
263 * bracket (bracketplets)
265 * configure pitch_byte
267 * rest name configurable
273 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
275 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
277 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
279 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
281 * use Real for all y positions.
283 * half-sharps, half-flats
285 * adaptive accidental spacing.
287 * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
289 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
291 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
293 * centered whole rest
295 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
296 - use tors feature in lily (?)
298 * declare notenametab?
300 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
305 - A decent scalar type
309 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
311 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
314 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
315 - decent TeX page layout
319 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
321 * textspanner: center position
326 - stack scripts in chords:
327 % fingering: footing:
328 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
330 - slur parts as a script
331 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
333 % toe to bheel four to five
339 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
341 * auxilliary file for caching info.
345 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
353 * Output abstract data structures associated with
356 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
358 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
360 * use an embedded language: Python
367 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
369 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
371 * caching breakpoints
377 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
379 * move towards incremental algorithms.
381 * far fetched language ideas
382 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
383 - programming/macros input
385 * Global type registration.
387 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
388 Type t = get_type ( *p );
389 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
392 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
394 * benchmark band_matrices.
396 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
398 * a real convert-mudela
400 * dots into separate item.
402 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
404 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
408 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
410 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
414 * whole head on ledger line
417 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
418 - 1 thread per Translator
420 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties