-before 0.1
+Features you cannot find in the doco as working, should be mentioned here.
- * remove spurious/outdated comments in .ly
+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
+
+0.2:
+
+ * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
+
+ * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
+ - configure.in
+ - clean-fonts.sh
- * pushgroup, popgroup.
+ * forced breakpoints
- * basic dynamics
+ * nicen examples:
+ - remove all \multi
+ - break-up heavily-nested score blocks
- * basic syntax & parser/lexer cleanup.
+ * --metafont
- * decent TeX page layout
+ * disable spaces in TeX stuff
- * clean split for m2m of sources.
+ * height of dyns.
+
+ * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
- * caching of Register_group_register hierarchies.
+ * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
-This is an assorted collection of stuff that will be done, might be
-done, or is an idea that I want to think about
+ * dots & rest collisions.
-BUGS
+ * add a screenshot to the website. :)
- * plet bugs: scales.ly
+ * fix stdin input
- * key at clef change.
+ * documentation
+ - introduction?
+ - info?
+ - LaTeX?
+ - more manpages?
- * key undo
+ * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
- * key at broken :||:
+ * versioning for Feta
- * [c8. c32 c32]
+ * bf: abbrevs over whole note
- * $cis ( | ) cis$
+ * spanner that is not spanned gives assert ().
- * Group_feature at start of music.
+ * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
+ which is irritating.
-SEVERELY LACKING:
+ * The `3' in the meter key is a one or two pixels too thin (at 600dpi)
+ in the middle:
- * grace notes
+ * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
- * dynamics (hairpins)
+ * tie/slur dir & curvature
-INPUTLANGUAGE
+ * stem len adjustable
- * lose the $ and @ ?
+ * mindist for spanners
- * figured bass?
+
- * transposition
+STUFF
- * rest name configurable
- * < .. > vs. { .. } syntax? !
+ * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
- * '*' vs. '/'
+ * scoping for properties
-SMALLISH PROJECTS
+ { c4
+ \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
+ c2
+ }
- * fix Staff_elem::width() derivs to use offset_
+ this modifies \stem for the c2
- * parshape
+ * 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
- * a pure parser.
+ * page handling:
+ - papersizes
+ - PS output
+ - optimal pagebreaking.
- * bar numbers/repetition marks
+ * put errorlevel in Input class
- * read from mmap directly: study yy_scan_buffer
+ * AFM for font input?
- * binsearch/hash for notenames, id. for identifiers
+3RD PARTY BUGS:
- * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
+ * gdb on RedHat 5
- * Lookup::tex_glissando, Lookup::tex_bracket, (use texbeam.cc as an
- example.)
+ * xdvi: PS in magnifying glass.
- * Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
- * command priority into enum
-
- * C meter iso 4/4
+ * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
- * textspanner: center position
+ * GS: /undefined in draw_beam after XDVI magnification.
- * script-spacing
+ * Rational global static var.
- * Brackets
+PROJECTS
- * space rest.
+ * Unicode support?
+ - 16 bit Strings
+ - -u switch
+ - detect of 16/8 bit files
+ - examples to go with it.
- * use (char *) iso. String for communication between lexer and
- parser.
+ * 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
- * configure idealspacing: arithmetic spacing
+ * \header
+ - output header info to MIDI too.
- * fix linking: `Warning: size of symbol'
- * collision Request_register.
+ * Makefile stuff:
+ - Use Automake
+ - shared lib on Solaris too.
+ - check libtool
+ - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
+ and out-sun5/
- * LilyPond .rpm and .deb
+ * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
-DOC
+ * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
+languages:
+ - italian
+ - german
+ - dutch
+ - swedish
+ .. ?
- * beam generation.
+ * chords
+ - guitar chords
+ - chord names
+ - basso continuo
+ - Syntax/parser
+ - MIDI output?
+ - typesetting
- * all errors
+ * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
- * a decent webpage
+ * 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
- * a test suite
+ * input converters
+ - NIFF?
+ - ABC?
+ - SMDL?
-FUTURE
+ * add to MIDI output:
+ - tempo change
+ - repeat
+ - slurs
+ - dynamics etc.
- * Register_container baseclass
+ * grace notes
+ - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
+ (which is at Voice_gravs level)
+ - make encapsulated spacing problems.
- * put scripts on bars
+ * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
- * glissando
+ * accidentals per Voice_group
- * guitar chord
+ * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
- * better beamslope calculation
+ * 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
- * implement better breaking algorithm
+ * piano staff
- * Implement all requests
+ * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
+ - scripts
+ - text
+ - slur start/end
+
+ * cautionary accidental
+
+ * 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 better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
+ - 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.
+
+ * lines:
+ - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
+ - set different line sizes / thicknesses
+ - 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
- * merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
+SEVERELY LACKING:
- * QLP for beams?
+ * SPEED!
- * revise calcideal
+ * multibar rests
- * eentje/tweetje
+ * markers
- * piano staff
-
- * abbreviations a4*8
-IDEAS
+INPUTLANGUAGE
- * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
+ * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
- * Horizontal_align_item, Vertical_align_item.
+ * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
+ voices
- * move MIDI io to a ANSI C libmidi library.
+ * <c f a>4 ?
- * fold indentifiers and notenames?
+ * Viola mode?
- * enter Requests directly
+ @c c g e g
+ for
+ c g es g,
- * itemcolumns: Use dummy items.
+ @A c g e g
+ for
+ cis gis e gis
- * use an embedded language: scheme, lisp, S-lang, Perl, ?
+ * relative mode for pitch entering
- * y -dims in internote?
+ * bracket (bracketplets)
- * hack up mf sources for decent spacing info (and then maybe
- read TFM directly)
+ * configure pitch_byte
- * merge Atom and Symbol?
+ * rest name configurable
- * merge common code of Item, Atom/Molecule
+ * Raw request syntax
- * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
+SMALLISH PROJECTS
+
+ * progress when creating MIDI elts.
+
+ * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
+
+ * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
+
+ * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
+
+ * use Real for all y positions.
+ - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
+
+ * half-sharps, half-flats
+
+ * adaptive accidental spacing.
+
+ * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
+
+ * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
+
+ * centered whole rest
+
+ * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
+ - use tors feature in lily (?)
+
+ * declare notenametab?
+
+ * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
- * Staff_group, Score_request_register.
+ * Flower types:
+ - A decent scalar type
+ - String hash
+ - Pointer hash
- * SHIT: meters/bars should be aligned, which is difficult if
- we get different keychanges in different staffs.
+ * binsearch/hash for identifiers
- * Integrating (objectiveC) MusicKit with LilyPond
+ * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
+
+ * TeX stuff:
+ - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ - decent TeX page layout
+
+ * lily \tempo
+
+ * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
+
+ * textspanner: center position
+
+ * Brackets
- * MusixTeX output possible?
+ * 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.
+
+ * Text_crescendo
+
+ * clean solution for staffsize in items.
+
+ * revise calcideal
+
+ * volta
+
+IDEAS
+
+ * 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, Scheme
+ for:
+ - Score_elems
+ - Engraver
+ - Translators
+ - Complex mudela?
- * PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
+ * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
+
+ * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
* caching breakpoints
- * use exceptions iso assert?
\ No newline at end of file
+ * #c <-> cis
+
+ * breath marks
+
+ * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
+
+ * move towards incremental algorithms.
+
+ * far fetched language ideas
+ - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
+ - programming/macros input
+
+ * Global type registration.
+
+ My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
+ Type t = get_type ( *p );
+ if ( t <= get_type( q ))
+ ..
+
+ * naming of Voice_group/Voice
+
+ * benchmark band_matrices.
+
+ * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
+
+ * a real convert-mudela
+
+ * dots into separate item.
+
+ * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
+
+ * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
+
+ * 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
+
+ * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties