-Features you cannot find in the doco as working, should be mentioned her.
-
+Features you cannot find in the doco 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
Most of the items are marked in the code as well, with full explanation.
grep for TODO and ugh/ugr
+0.2:
+ * add a screenshot to the website.
-IMPORTANT
- * add mi2mu example output (.midi.ly and .gif) to website
+ * fix stdin input
- * piano staff
-
- * decent spacing
+ * LILYSOURCEDIR
- * implement better breaking algorithm
+ * documentation
- * update 20 pt table
-
- * use Hungarian throughout code
+ * spurious "Junk beam" warnings
+
+ * standchen: warning: Excentric column (Meter dims?)
+
+ * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
+
+ * versioning for Feta
+
+ * bf: abbrevs over whole note
+
+STUFF
+
+ * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
+
+ * scoping for properties
+
+ { c4
+ \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
+ c2
+ }
+
+ this modifies \stem for the c2
+
+ * 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
+
+ * optimal pagebreaking.
+
+ * put errorlevel in Input class
- * decent TeX page layout
+ * AFM for font input?
- * per-pstaff item-widths [JCN]
+3RD PARTY BUGS:
- * script priority
+ * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
- * a Hands on tutorial [HKN]
+ * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
PROJECTS
+
+ * Unicode support?
+ - 16 bit Strings
+ - -u switch
+ - detect of 16/8 bit files
+ - examples to go with it.
+
+ * Spring_spacer:
+ - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
+ - use straight QP to find minimal "fitting force"
+ - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
+ - used fixed point fp
+
+ * \header
+ - write perl script for handling it into databases
+ - write TeX macros to generate titles
+ - adapt make-website to use \header info.
+
+ * 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/
+
+ * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
+
+ * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
+languages:
+ - italian
+ - german
+ - dutch
+ - swedish
+ .. ?
+
+ * chords
+ - guitar chords
+ - chord names
+ - basso continuo
+ - Syntax/parser
+ - MIDI output?
+ - typesetting
+
+ * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
+
+ * 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
+
+ * input converters
+ - NIFF?
+ - ABC?
+ - SMDL?
+
+ * add to MIDI output:
+ - tempo change
+ - repeat
+ - slurs
+ - dynamics etc.
+
+ * grace notes
+ - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
+ (which is at Voice_gravs level)
+ - make encapsulated spacing problems.
+
+ * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
+
+ * accidentals per Voice_group
+
+ * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
+
* Output class, handles : (smallish)
- help text /(c) notice?
- version line
- quiet/ignore-version options
- logfile output
+ * piano staff
+
* elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
- scripts
- text
- slur start/end
* Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
- make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, PostScript, Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
+ 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 PScore, Items, Spanners etc. into libmutype.a
-
-
- * separate Score_elem settings in user-settable (properties
- .. ) and non-user-settable part.
+ - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
+
+ * Documentation
+ - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
+ - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
+ - a tutorial
* TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
- Glissando
- trill
- bracket
- * Rewrite Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
+ * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
- [c8. c32 c32]
- - interbeam height
- - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
- - general shaving
+ - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
+ - general shaving on Beam and Stem
- use plet grouping
- - abbreviations [c2 c2]1/2
- separate visual from rhythmic info even more
- beams over bars
- * Redo MIDI output to use Registers: (Difficult)
- - remember more horizontal info than melodics:
- - tempo change
- - repeat
- - slurs
- - dynamics etc.
-
-
- * Redo font support
- - use GSharp fonts?
- - rename mf fonts to avoid conflicts with musixtex
- - check (c) issues
- - use own fonts/update musixtex fonts/find older (c)-less fonts
- - hack up mf sources for decent spacing info (and then
- read AFM/TFM directly, for text too)
-
+ * Redo fonts
+ - adapt for multiple font sizes.
* lines:
- - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines_reg
+ - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
- set different line sizes / thicknesses
- - stem down too far right
- beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
* Collisions
- - bring Collision::do_pre_processing to haircutter
- left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
- < \multivoice { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
+ < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
* Keys:
- merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
- key transposition.
- key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
- - special key: \key 'b bes bis';
+ - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
- spacing, national styles?
-PARSER
- * Duration -> Musical_duration, typedef Rational Duration?
-
-**********************
-HKN buglist:
+ * Support for TAB
+ - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
+ - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
-noten staan vaak te dicht aan de rechterkant van de maatstreep.
+ * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
-tekst staat erg ver van notenbalken af
+ * breaking:
+ - caching breakpoints
+ - saving them
+ - allowing users to set them.
+ - penalties
+ - specify number of lines
+ - set linelength per line
-waarom geen ; achter dingen in \paper? (\textwidth 180\mm)
-(sowieso: wanneer wel en geen ; ?)
+ * Rhythmic staff.
-Onduidelijk wanneer wel en geen \ voor een woord. Maak liever
-verplichte regels
-
-****************
-
-BUGS
- * spurious Weird stem size warnings
-
- * staccato dot positions.
-
- * stacked scripts.
-
- * lilypond - -> crash
-
- * chlapik balk ruimte
-
- * standchen triool beam up/down
+ * Baroque superstaff
SEVERELY LACKING:
* SPEED!
- * grace notes
+ * multibar rests
+ * markers
-FURTHER FOR ORCHESTRAL SCORE:
- * multibar rests
+INPUTLANGUAGE
- * barnumbers, markers
+ * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
- * abbreviations c4=16
+ * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
+ voices
- * doublebar "||", finishbar "|||" (or "||." ?)
+ * <c f a>4 ?
-INPUTLANGUAGE
+ * Viola mode?
- * should have \require{package.ly} to read req'd packages.
+ @c c g e g
+ for
+ c g es g,
+
+ @A c g e g
+ for
+ cis gis e gis
* relative mode for pitch entering
* bracket (bracketplets)
- * \duration 8; e*2/3
-
* configure pitch_byte
- * figured bass?
-
* rest name configurable
* Raw request syntax
- * subtime with Subtle_reqs
-
-PROJECTS
-
- * Do RTTI i.s.o. static_name(), name() and request-junk.
-
- * add remove() methods to all items/spanners.
-
SMALLISH PROJECTS
- * handle do_substitute_dependency in more derived classes.
+ * progress when creating MIDI elts.
- * replace member access by get()/set() methods, to enable
- future embedded code.
+ * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
- * --fast/--draft: leave out constraints
+ * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
* write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
- * write Rest_collision
-
- * use Real for y positions.
-
- * shared lib on Solaris too.
-
- * bugreport to doc++ devel: struct not in class hier; public
- virtual baseclasses
-
- * cleanup lily-proto.hh and proto.hh
+ * use Real for all y positions.
+ - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
* half-sharps, half-flats
* adaptive accidental spacing.
- * Score_elem invible_b_ flag
-
* unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
- * indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
-
* handle EOF graciously in error messages.
* caching Item/spanner dimensions.
* centered whole rest
- * caching breakpoints / saving them.
-
- * use dstream feature in mi2mu
-
* qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
- use tors feature in lily (?)
- * declare symtab
-
* declare notenametab?
* midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
* parshape
- * read from mmap directly: bugreport to flex developers->
- yy_scan_buffer in C++..
+ * Flower types:
+ - A decent scalar type
+ - String hash
+ - Pointer hash
* binsearch/hash for identifiers
* stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
- * Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
+ * 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
- * script-spacing
-
* Brackets
-
- * caching of Register_group_register hierarchies.
-
- * use (char *) iso. String for communication between lexer and
- parser.
-
- * configure idealspacing: arithmetic spacing
-
- * LilyPond .deb. Other packaging methods?
-
- * detect -pipe
-
-
-DOC
- * Score_elem structure.
-
- * all errors
- * config of TeX macros
-
- * a test suite
-
- * hacking-HOWTO
+ * 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:
-FUTURE
+ % toe to bheel four to five
+ % ^_u 4_5
+ % -
+ % --|x-- --|x--
+ % --|--- --|---
+ % --|--- --|---
+ (where "to" is a tiny bow)
* auxilliary file for caching info.
- * Reg_configure_request
-
- * slur parts as a script
-
- * mixed fontsizes
-
- * put scripts on bars
-
- * guitar chord
-
- * Junk Staff_column, and find the requests while walking the Voices.?
-
- * better beamslope calculation: QLP for beams?
-
* Text_crescendo
* clean solution for staffsize in items.
* volta
- * piano staff
-
- * vertical spanner
-
IDEAS
- * derive PCol from Score_elem?
-
- * scoping in Lexer: do general id- assignments in mudela.
- ID '=' EXPR;
+ * 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
+ * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
for:
- Score_elems
- - Registers
+ - Engraver
+ - Translators
- Complex mudela?
- * y -dims in internote?
-
- * merge Atom and Symbol?
-
- * merge common code of Item, Atom/Molecule
+ * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
* Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
- * Staff_group, Score_request_register.
-
- * Meters/bars should be aligned, which is difficult if
- we get different keychanges in different staffs.
-
- * Horizontal_align item for meter,bar etc.
-
* caching breakpoints
* #c <-> cis
* used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
- * default convert mudela-file.ly -> mudela-file.tex
- - rename {standchen,scsii-menuetto,...}.tex
+ * move towards incremental algorithms.
- * (related with above) --simple-mudela option for lily,
- to lily input files with one-voice simple mudela
- (no red tape)
+ * far fetched language ideas
+ - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
+ - programming/macros input
- * stack scripts in chords:
- % fingering: footing:
- < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
+ * Global type registration.
- * parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
+ My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
+ Type t = get_type ( *p );
+ if ( t <= get_type( q ))
+ ..
- % toe to bheel four to five
- % ^_u 4_5
- % -
- % --|x-- --|x--
- % --|--- --|---
- % --|--- --|---
- (where "to" is a tiny bow)
+ * naming of Voice_group/Voice
- * move towards incremental algorithms.
+ * 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