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
10 * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
18 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
22 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
24 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
26 * dots & rest collisions.
28 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
37 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
41 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
46 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
48 * scoping for properties
51 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
55 this modifies \stem for the c2
62 - default abbreviation
66 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
74 - optimal pagebreaking.
76 * put errorlevel in Input class
82 * xdvi: PS magnifying glass.
84 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
86 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
88 * GS: /undefined in draw_beam after XDVI magnification.
90 * Rational global static var.
97 - detect of 16/8 bit files
98 - examples to go with it.
101 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
102 - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
103 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
104 - used fixed point fp
107 - output header info to MIDI too.
112 - shared lib on Solaris too.
114 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
117 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
119 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
135 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
138 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
139 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
140 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
141 - integrate IO checking into stream class
148 * add to MIDI output:
155 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
156 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
157 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
159 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
161 * accidentals per Voice_group
163 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
165 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
166 - help text /(c) notice?
168 - warning /errors/progress
169 - abort on error/warning; exit status
170 - quiet/ignore-version options
175 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
180 * cautionary accidental
182 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
183 make ofi2 TeX, MusiXTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
184 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
186 - poor man's ascii output possible?
187 - MusiXTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
189 - Common Music Notation
190 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
191 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
194 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
195 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
196 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
199 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
204 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
206 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
207 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
209 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
213 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
216 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
217 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
218 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
221 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
222 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
225 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
226 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
227 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
229 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
230 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
231 - spacing, national styles?
234 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
235 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
237 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
240 - caching breakpoints
242 - allowing users to set them.
244 - specify number of lines
245 - set linelength per line
262 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
264 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
279 * relative mode for pitch entering
281 * bracket (bracketplets)
283 * configure pitch_byte
285 * rest name configurable
291 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
293 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
295 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
297 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
299 * use Real for all y positions.
300 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
302 * half-sharps, half-flats
304 * adaptive accidental spacing.
306 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
308 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
310 * centered whole rest
312 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
313 - use tors feature in lily (?)
315 * declare notenametab?
317 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
320 - A decent scalar type
324 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
326 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
329 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
330 - decent TeX page layout
334 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
336 * textspanner: center position
341 - stack scripts in chords:
342 % fingering: footing:
343 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
345 - slur parts as a script
346 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
348 % toe to bheel four to five
354 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
356 * auxilliary file for caching info.
360 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
368 * Output abstract data structures associated with
371 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
373 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
375 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
382 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
384 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
386 * caching breakpoints
392 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
394 * move towards incremental algorithms.
396 * far fetched language ideas
397 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
398 - programming/macros input
400 * Global type registration.
402 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
403 Type t = get_type ( *p );
404 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
407 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
409 * benchmark band_matrices.
411 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
413 * a real convert-mudela
415 * dots into separate item.
417 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
419 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
423 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
425 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
430 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
431 - 1 thread per Translator
433 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties