-*-outline-layout:(2 (-1 -1 0 :) 0);outline-stylish-prefixes:nil -*-
* GNU LilyPond TODO
-Features you cannot find in the doco as working, should be
+Features you cannot find in the documentation as working, should be
mentioned here. This is an assorted collection of stuff that will be
-done, might be done, or is an idea that I want to think about
-
+done, might be done, or is an idea that we want to think about.
+m
Most of the items are marked in the code as well
-Grep for TODO and ugh/ugr/urg.
+Grep -i for TODO, FIXME and ugh/ugr/urg.
-.* BUGS
-. * indent = 0.0 with linewidth=-1.0
-. * music ending in grace notes.
-. * PostScript
-. * header for PS enteredby = "bla <bla@bar.com>"
-. * ps/lily.ps see comments.
-. * didot / big point.
-. * midi key.
-. * fix singleStaffBracket
-. * declare performers in \midi
-. * check EGCS version
-. * input/test/stem-spacing.ly: 12/4 touches first note
-. * timesig: sometimes bottom digit too high
-. * [<c8. d> <c16 d> <c8. d> <c16 d> <c8. d> <c16 d>]
-. * I'm using lilypond version 1.1.50 and have a problem with repeat/alternative.
-I tried this code
-
- \time 4/4;
- \repeat semi 2
- {
- \partial 4; f'8 g' | a'4 a'8 a'4 g'8 f'4 | f' d'8 c'( )c'2 |
- f'4 f'
- }
- \alternative
- {
- { [g'8 f'] g' a'( | )a'2 r4 }
- { \partial 2; [g'8 f'] e' f'( | )f'2 r2 }
- }
-. * fix MIDI
-. * \shape 1st dim skipped?
-. * turn slope-damping on/off
-. * We need feta-din*.mf files for more sizes than 10.
-. * fix dynamics decently, ie. use kerning & ligatures.
-. * dots & rest collisions?
-. * mudela-book.py
-. * fix \mudelafile{} to have decent functionality
-. * P.P.S. It can be cool in mudela-book to distinguish in
-pre,postMudelaExample, whether MudelaExample is epsed or not: ( if
-this fragment is floating eps, than 1, otherwise 2). say
-preMudelaExample[eps]{}, and change it in document body sometimes.
-. * use less RE's
-. * junk _ in lyric mode for " "
-. * Lyrics and scripts collide.
-. * a note with a circle after it, meaning:
+.* TODO
+. * use Rhythmic_head::position_i () for all Staff_referenced
+. * Break_req handling is silly (break_forbid () + \break fucks up.)
+. * script engraver
- note + circle = note + 1/4 of its length
+. * HaraKiriStaffContext removes bar lines and doesn't remove
+ staff margin text on removed staff lines.
+. * Mondrup:
- the circle is like a dot that's not filled in. for example, on
- page three, the c-sharp on the second line should be a quarter with
- a circle, not a quarter tied to a sixteenth. is this at all
- possible with lily?
-. * grace_align_item -> stackingdir = left, weird placement.
-. * tuplets that are written as "number : note", for example
- "3 : [image of a half note here]". possible?
+- I would like the possibility of forcing clef- and key- changes to be
+printed _after_ the new bar line
-. * Matanya's tips:
-. * don't shorten stems/staffs closer to each other.
-. * accidentals closer to note head
-. * to space the staffs/staffgroups contained in the score.
-. * heavier beams?
+- I would like an option to define the number of systems on which the
+score must be distributed. As it is now it seems that I may only
+influence that indirectly through the gourlay_maxmeasures property.
+
+- if I change the property minVerticalAlign in a multi staff score with
+lyrics the change affects the lyrics too. I would like the change to
+_only_ affect staves.
+
+- I would like to be able to influence the sloping of xtuplet brackets
+
+- for one of my test scores containing a modern edition of an early
+17'th century composition I have a leading measure containing the
+orginal clefs and note values of the original composition. I use the
+"harmonic" and "diamond" note head styles for that measure and would
+like to have the stems of these notes _centered_ on the notehead as in
+the mensural music notation.
+
+- after the leading measure in the above mentioned score I want a double
+bar line fully drawn across the staves and after that keep to the
+ChoirStaff bar line types in the rest of the scores
+
+. * autoBeamMelisma: if I explicitly beam notes in a staff with auto beaming disabled I
+would like to have these beams also to be melismatic.
+
+. * make all Feta (including dynamics) available to the user in
+ textual scripts. Examples: "D.S. al \coda", "\mf espress.".
+
+. * ? -Q, --find-old-relative show all changes in relative syntax
+What's old about absolute to relative conversion? Could maybe use for
+abc2ly, midi2ly?
.* Cleanups needed
. * \$ and $ identifier syntax in examples.
+. * Junk ghost positioning objects eg, Script leans on Staffside
+ leans on Staff.
+. * bracket ps code.
+. * mudela-book
+. * center option (??)
+. * make mudela-book understand usepackage{geometry}
+. * check that linewidth set in \paper is not wider than actual linewidth?
+. * the following fails because mudelabook doesn't care that the
+ last } after \end{mudela} finishes the marginpar:
+ \marginpar{
+ \begin{mudela}
+ c d e f g
+ \end{mudela}}
+. * force-verbatim is maybe not that useful since latex fails with footnotes,
+ marginpars and others
+"""
. * Key_engraver, Local_key_item
. * Think of comprehensive solution for "if (grace_b == self_grace_b_)"
-. * Y dimension units: staffspace vs. Point
+. * String[String.length] doesn't trap.
. * Beam
. * Stem
. * Rhythmic_column and interaction stem/rhythmic_column/note_head/dots.
-. * Slur
-. * Rhythmic_grouping
. * Duration
. * clef engraver
. * parser
+. * Lookup::text -> needs to be TeX independent.
+. * junk Music_iterator::first_b_
+. * Bezier
-.* TODO before 1.2
-. * Grace_slur_engraver.
-. * Morally pure LilyPond.
-. * Remove non-free software links.
-. * Remove meta article LilyPond.
-. * break priority setting from SCM.
-. * Gade score
-. * remove [] in favour of auto-beamer
-. * hangOnClef with non-breakable clefs.
-. * Aha, the problem is the new TeX code generation for changing fonts.
-> (The explanation below is mostly intended for Han-Wen and Jan)
-> Before, the font was changed with macros declared separately for
-> pure TeX and LaTeX, but now all the fonts are declared directly in
-> the generated code using the low-level TeX commands. This circumvents
-> the fontencoding mechanism of LaTeX and is a potential source of
-> problems also for us users of the Latin-1 character set.
-> I think it still works since the inputencoding latin1 is
-> declared by ly2dvi, but it still means that e.g. an o with
-> umlaut is typeset as a combination of the two symbols 'o' and
-> 'umlaut' instead of as a single character, as would be the case
-> if fontencoding OT1 had been used. This shouldn't give any
-> difference in layout, though. One of the main argument for using
-> fontencoding OT1 is for the hyphenation mechanism to work, an
-> argument that's clearly irrelevant in our application. Yet we
-> see the problem for August.
-. * Abstraction for engravers:
-. * make "in-between" engraver (Tie, Extender)
-. * make wide_spanner_engraver (line_group_spanner, staff_symbol)
-. * do scaled fonts generally
-. * The Lilypond accidental symbols are available through the TeX macros,
-\textflat, \textsharp and \textnatural defined in the init file
-lilyponddefs.tex. All the symbols are defined in the files fetaXX.tex
-where XX corresponds to the size. I don't know where (or even if) they
-are installed but they are generated in the mf/out/ directory during the
-compilation.
-. * make dependencies () a virtual function.
-. * store req -> element, element -> element causes for warnings
-. * include examples in RPM.
-. * fix partial measures in meaningful way.
-. * relative mode for mi2mu
-. * uniformise recent feta contributions.
-. * bigger and fatter 4/4 C
-. * sort out directory stuff.
-. * --prefix option?
-. * -I option per filetype?
-. * kpathsea?
+.* BUGS
+. * [c8. c16 c16 c16] in 6/8 timesig.
+. * staffside spanner (crescendo!) along with staffswitch.
+. * --- 2, margin notes don't work correctly for the pianostaff (in the
+following example, i expect the "piano" string to be centered
+vertically between the two staves):
+
+\score {
+ \notes \context PianoStaff <
+ \property PianoStaff.instrument = "Piano"
+ \context Staff = treble {
+ a b c
+ }
+ \context Staff = bass {
+ \clef bass;
+ a, b, c,
+ }
+ >
+ \paper {
+ \translator { \StaffContext \consists "Staff_margin_engraver"; }
+ \translator { \PianoStaffContext \consists "Staff_margin_engraver"; }
+ }
+}
+. *
+> \context Staff <
+> {\voiceone''4. r8}
+> \voicetwo c,4 r4}
+> >
+. * sort out breve shapes.
+. * \time forces keysig?
+
+.* STUFF
+. * We need feta-din*.mf files for more sizes than 10.
+. *
+- The syntax for chords looks clumsy with two different meanings of
+ '-' and different syntax for separating modifiers from the tonic
+ and from other modifiers. Why not use for example ':' between
+ tonic and modifier and between the different modifiers?
+
+- Rests and beams don't work too well together. Example:
+ [ r8 g''16 des'] [r8 c16 a]
+
+- The stemLength property should affect also beamed stems.
+
+. * align left edge of broken (de)cresc/slur/tie/tuplet/volta
+. * fix dynamics decently, ie. use kerning & ligatures.
+. * key restorations & repeats
+. * paperXX.ly \quartwidth, font setting not up to date. (Should read from AFM?)
+. * * auto melismaBusy for beams.
+. *In Caro Mio Ben, bar 8, there's a syllable that starts on a note, and
+ends on a pair of grace notes. Standard practice is to mark this with
+a slur starting on the main note and ending on the grace note, so a
+singer knows where to break the words.
+
+In bar 27, there's a crescendo that's supposed to start at the start
+of the grace notes and extend to the note after the grace notes.
+. * 5. Sometimes lyrics extend past the right end of the staff. I guess that
+this is a similar problem (if not another symptom of the same problem) as
+one of the spacing bugs mentioned in the TODO.
+. * 4. Lyrics and grace sections don't go too well together.
+ The words are aligned with the main note, not the start of the
+ grace note. This is usually wrong, but is sometimes right.
+. * decimal point in \paper {}
+. * tie-direction
+. * repeats and partial measures.
+. * rhythmic staff & accidentals.
+. * use melismaBusy in Lyric context to typeset melismata correctly.
. * ly2dvi/lilypond logfile.
-. * fractional chord durs.
+. * def stem dir.
. * hang Item on Spanner
. * do --safe for PS output?
-. * convert-mudela --output
-. * Staff_margin (with a partial measure.)
-. * fix convert-mudela manpage
-. * decimal point in \paper {}
-. * { \voiceone <a'4.*2/3 d''4.*2/3 fis''4.*2/3> [g''8 fis'' e''] d''4 |}
- and
- { \voicetwo d'4 d'2.*2/3 } spacing
-. * tied notes for MIDI
-. * sharp / flat on trills (in MIDI ??)
-. * scm-ify \property values.
-. * move class Lookup {} into scm
. * msgfmt -o check?
-. * add new glyphs to font.ly
-. * formatting of input stuff.
-. * \notes{ a \< b \cr } vs \notes{ a \< b \! }
-. * broken scripts:
- lbheel = \script { "bheel" 0 0 -1 0 0 }
- rbheel = \script { "bheel" 0 0 1 0 0 }
- lbtoe = \script { "btoe" 0 0 -1 0 0 }
- rbtoe = \script { "btoe" 0 0 1 0 0 }
- lfheel = \script { "fheel" 0 0 -1 0 0 }
- rfheel = \script { "fheel" 0 0 1 0 0 }
- lftoe = \script { "ftoe" 0 0 -1 0 0 }
- rftoe = \script { "ftoe" 0 0 1 0 0 }
- and also
- portato= \script { "portato" 0 -1 0 1 0 }
-. * ly2dvi
-. * bottomnote for ly2dvi
-. * deps for ly2dvi
+. * collision of lyrics with span_bars. See star-spangled.
+. * Auto_beam debugging output (waarom/wanneer heb jij die weggehaald?)
+. * It is impossible to typeset two textual scripts that are stacked
+ on top of eachother and avoids note collisions and at the same
+ time are typeset with different textStyle. I tried to move around
+ the text_engraver and other engravers between Voice and Thread
+ but the granularity is not fine enough, the scripts have to
+ share the same engraver in order to be get correct vertical
+ position but than they cannot have different style.
+ In my opinion, all scripts that share the same staff, should
+ be stacked vertically, avoiding collisions with the notes
+ in all voices.
-.* STUFF
+. * break priority setting from SCM.
+. * Matanya's tips:
+. * don't shorten stems/staffs closer to each other.
+. * accidentals closer to note head
+. * to space the staffs/staffgroups contained in the score.
+. * heavier beams?
+
+. * tuplets that are written as "number : note", for example
+ "3 : [image of a half note here]". possible?
+. * a note with a circle after it, meaning:
+
+ note + circle = note + 1/4 of its length
+
+ the circle is like a dot that's not filled in. for example, on
+ page three, the c-sharp on the second line should be a quarter with
+ a circle, not a quarter tied to a sixteenth. is this at all
+ possible with lily?
+. * scm-ify \property values.
+. * make dependencies () a virtual function.
+. * deprecate hangOnClef.
+. * Abstraction for engravers:
+. * make "in-between" engraver (Tie)
+. * make wide_spanner_engraver (line_group_spanner, staff_symbol)
+. * store req -> element, element -> element causes for warnings
. * compulsory hshift
-. *
-My wish list for lyrics. I dream of a time when I will have enough time to
+. * My wish list for lyrics. I dream of a time when I will have enough time to
become familiar enough with the source code to be able to implement some of
these myself, but I don't know when that will be, so I thought I'd "publish"
my suggestions in case someone else is in a position to give them some
beginning of each new line. This would make it easier to follow songs with a
large number of stanzas.
-2. Hyphens between syllables. At the moment there appears to be no easy way
-to position a hyphen mid-way between the syllables it breaks.
-
3. Notes centred above/below lyrics rather than left-aligned.
4. It would be very nice to be able to build some kind of phrasing into the
. * Give # lines in linebreaking.
. * arrows on slurs.
. * rewrite context defs using Scheme
+. * junk TeX specifics from internal code.
. * \selectmusic to cut pieces from music.
+. * formatting of input stuff.
+. * deps for ly2dvi
. * TODO: merge atom & molecule; make tree from molecule.
. * Align_element::padding ?
. * typo checks on property names?
. * seriously buffer TeX output (do profile of writing .5 mb TeX file.)
. * strip EXEs before installing
. * zip target for binary windows dist (JBR)
+. * fix partial measures in meaningful way.
+. * uniformise recent feta contributions.
+. * bigger and fatter 4/4 C
+. * relative mode for midi2ly
. * junking \skip req in lyrics
-. * mi2mu empty staffs.
+. * midi2ly empty staffs.
. * use Fourier transformation for rhythmic quantisation.
. * horizontal centering of dynamics
. * $DEPENDENCIES_OUTPUT support
+. * turn slope-damping on/off
+. * sort out directory stuff.
+. * --prefix option?
+. * -I option per filetype?
+. * kpathsea?
. * fix vertical alignment and stafflines
. * declaring Performers
. * *.yo: fix pod manpage layout legacy
* { a4 a16 } c <-- duration of c?
* < a4 b8 > c <-- duration of c?
. * \tempo 4. = 90;
-. * fix audio-items (don't use (input) requests, but copy data)
. * make sure all ex's have a mudela-version
. * do rest-collisions for Multi_measure_rests as well.
. * split error/warning in error/warning/non_fatal_error
. * fix variable define/lookup parser global<->paper
. * fix title/instrument placements; see input/test/title.ly
. * <\voiceone c4. \voicetwo c4>
+. * I'd like to change the \repetitions command to Jan's suggested
+ syntax: \repeat "repeatsymbol" 2 {...}, but I'm not sure that
+ I understand the implementation of repeats well enough.
. * add full cello suites to web site (kom op, Maarten!)
+. * rename 'staff_line_leading' (who is being lead where?) to
+staff_space, interline; (or other meaningful name) and use throughout
+lily
+
+[-> leading are the lead strips between the sticks (lines) of
+typeface. ie. leading is vertical space --hwn]
. * add mudela-book-doc source to webstie.
. * Rethink Time_description
-\cadenza , \meter, \grouping should all be \properties
+\cadenza , \meter, should all be \properties
. * fix singleStaffBracket
. * rename
-. * measure -> bar
-. * abbreviation-beam -> (measured/unmeasured) tremolo
. * partial -> anacrouse
-. * robustify Beam (in case of no stems, 32nd notes)
. * move paper vars into engraver properties
+. * add new glyphs to font.ly
. * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
. * more intelligent file searching
. * disable spaces in TeX stuff
. * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
. * make LilyPond RPM fully relocatable
-. * dots & rest collisions.
-. * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
-which is irritating.
. * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
+. * didot / big point.
. * clefs (AG): The "8" should appear closer to the actual clef,
touching it.
. * put errorlevel in Input class
. * junk nesting slurs
-. * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
. * distinguish between unset and empty properties.
.* FONT
Reading 4 bytes from 0xefffeca8 on the stack.
Address 0xefffeca8 is 728 bytes below frame pointer in function
. * GNU diff 2.7: diff -rN does not see a new directory with empty file
-. * mf-to-table -> add space before ; in AFM output. (-> check AFM
- spec. Is this a bug in afm2tfm?)
+. * patch: don't touch timestamp if all patches fail.
+. * MetaPost: should not generate setgray for unfill
+. * mfplain.ini not in tetex 0.9
+. * mf-to-table -> add space 'before ; in AFM output. (-> check AFM
+spec. Is this a bug in afm2tfm?)
. * check out GCC signatures?
. * glibc 2.0:
f = fopen ("/dev/null", "r")
assert (feof (f))
-
. * tetex: mfplain.mem
-.* 3RD PARTY PROJECTS:
-. * make GCC warn about ctor that leaves member vars uninitialised.
-. * GNU patch
-. * 'double-fix' mode: ignore identical fix, rather than suggest
- to revert patch direction when (more or less? exactly) the same
- thing is fixed
+
.* PROJECTS
. * Scripts:
. * stack scripts in chords:
. * PS output
. * optimal pagebreaking.
-. * Unicode support? -> man 7 unicode
-. * 16 bit Strings
-. * -u switch
-. * detect of 16/8 bit files
-. * examples to go with it.
+. * internationalisation for input.
+. * Unicode support? -> man 7 unicode
+. * (The explanation below is mostly intended for Han-Wen and Jan)
+> Before, the font was changed with macros declared separately for
+> pure TeX and LaTeX, but now all the fonts are declared directly in
+> the generated code using the low-level TeX commands. This circumvents
+> the fontencoding mechanism of LaTeX and is a potential source of
+> problems also for us users of the Latin-1 character set.
+> I think it still works since the inputencoding latin1 is
+> declared by ly2dvi, but it still means that e.g. an o with
+> umlaut is typeset as a combination of the two symbols 'o' and
+> 'umlaut' instead of as a single character, as would be the case
+> if fontencoding OT1 had been used. This shouldn't give any
+> difference in layout, though. One of the main argument for using
+> fontencoding OT1 is for the hyphenation mechanism to work, an
+> argument that's clearly irrelevant in our application. Yet we
+> see the problem for August.
. * \header
. * output header info to MIDI too.
. * Debug logs:
. * derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
. * indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
-. * use dstream feature in mi2mu
+. * use dstream feature in midi2ly
. * integrate IO checking into stream class
. * input converters
. * SMDL?
. * add to MIDI output:
-. * tempo change
+. * sharp / flat on trills (in MIDI ??)
. * ornaments (and trills?)
. * slurs
. * accents
. * account for rhythmic position in measure
. * etc.
-. * accidentals per Voice_group
. * Output class, handles : (smallish)
. * help text /(c) notice?
. * Glissando
. * trill
-. * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
-. * [c8. c32 c32]
-. * doc on Rhythmic_grouping
+. * Rewrite Stem, Beam (hairy)
. * general shaving on Beam and Stem
. * use plet grouping
-. * separate visual from rhythmic info even more
. * beams over bars
. * lines:
. * specify number of lines
.* INPUTLANGUAGE
-. * \rhythms 4 16 16 16 16; c c c c c -> c4 c16 etc.
. * convention for slurs vs. phrasing marks.
. * Language:
. * \translator -> ?
. * input property
. * abstract grammar.
. * Figure out semicolons.
-. * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
. * <c f a>4 ?
. * Viola mode?
.* SMALLISH PROJECTS
-. * Faulenzer sign (% repeat). Perhaps also use \repeat syntax?
-
. * fix confusing naming in Engraver vs Engraver_group_engraver (context)
-. * progress when creating MIDI elts.
-
. * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
. * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
(require 'allout)
(outline-init 't)
+
+