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?)
16 * optimal pagebreaking.
18 * put errorlevel in Input class
22 * Make general "spanning"-elements and "placer"-elements
24 - naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella, Feta?
25 - bf: abbrevs over whole note
26 - scoping for properties
29 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
33 this modifies \stem for the c2
40 - default abbreviation
44 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
49 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
51 * Score_bar/Piano_braces, are *not* ordinary bars
55 * ICE: spring-spacer::calcideal()
57 * collision.cc: 138, g++ errors
59 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
61 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
68 - detect of 16/8 bit files
69 - examples to go with it.
72 - write a faster Spring_spacer ( without matrices if possible )
73 - use straight QP to find minimal "fitting force"
74 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
78 - write perl script for handling it into databases
79 - write TeX macros to generate titles
82 - have make dist produce tarball in out/ directory.
84 - shared lib on Solaris too.
86 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
89 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
91 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
107 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
110 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
111 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
112 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
113 - integrate IO checking into stream class
120 * placement of bar-numbers
125 \melodic \type Staff { c'4 g'4 }
126 \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; hello4 bye4 < a chord > }
127 \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; bye4 hello4 }
128 \melodic { \id "Staff" ""; c'4 g'4 }
133 * add to MIDI output:
140 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
141 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
142 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
144 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
146 * accidentals per Voice_group
148 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
150 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
151 - help text /(c) notice?
153 - warning /errors/progress
154 - abort on error/warning; exit status
155 - quiet/ignore-version options
160 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
165 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
166 make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
167 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
169 - poor man's ascii output possible?
170 - MusixTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
172 - Common Music Notation
173 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
174 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
177 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
178 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
181 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
186 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
188 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
189 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
191 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
195 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
198 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
199 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
200 - stem down too far right
201 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
204 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
205 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
208 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
209 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
210 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
212 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
213 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
214 - spacing, national styles?
217 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
218 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
220 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
223 - caching breakpoints
225 - allowing users to set them.
227 - specify number of lines
228 - set linelength per line
245 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
247 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
262 * relative mode for pitch entering
264 * bracket (bracketplets)
266 * configure pitch_byte
268 * rest name configurable
274 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
276 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
278 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
280 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
282 * use Real for all y positions.
284 * half-sharps, half-flats
286 * adaptive accidental spacing.
288 * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
290 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
292 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
294 * centered whole rest
296 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
297 - use tors feature in lily (?)
299 * declare notenametab?
301 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
306 - A decent scalar type
310 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
312 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
315 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
316 - decent TeX page layout
320 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
322 * textspanner: center position
327 - stack scripts in chords:
328 % fingering: footing:
329 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
331 - slur parts as a script
332 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
334 % toe to bheel four to five
340 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
342 * auxilliary file for caching info.
346 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
354 * Output abstract data structures associated with
357 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
359 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
361 * use an embedded language: Python
368 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
370 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
372 * caching breakpoints
378 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
380 * move towards incremental algorithms.
382 * far fetched language ideas
383 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
384 - programming/macros input
386 * Global type registration.
388 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
389 Type t = get_type ( *p );
390 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
393 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
395 * benchmark band_matrices.
397 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
399 * a real convert-mudela
401 * dots into separate item.
403 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
405 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
409 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
411 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
415 * whole head on ledger line
418 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
419 - 1 thread per Translator
421 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties