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 * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
13 * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
21 - break-up heavily-nested score blocks
25 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
29 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
31 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
33 * dots & rest collisions.
35 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
45 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
49 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
51 * spanner that is not spanned gives assert ().
53 * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
56 * The `3' in the meter key is a one or two pixels too thin (at 600dpi)
59 * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
61 * tie/slur dir & curvature
65 * mindist for spanners
72 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
74 * scoping for properties
77 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
81 this modifies \stem for the c2
88 - default abbreviation
92 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
100 - optimal pagebreaking.
102 * put errorlevel in Input class
104 * AFM for font input?
110 * xdvi: PS in magnifying glass.
112 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
114 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
116 * GS: /undefined in draw_beam after XDVI magnification.
118 * Rational global static var.
125 - detect of 16/8 bit files
126 - examples to go with it.
129 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
130 - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
131 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
132 - used fixed point fp
135 - output header info to MIDI too.
140 - shared lib on Solaris too.
142 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
145 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
147 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
163 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
166 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
167 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
168 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
169 - integrate IO checking into stream class
176 * add to MIDI output:
183 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
184 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
185 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
187 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
189 * accidentals per Voice_group
191 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
193 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
194 - help text /(c) notice?
196 - warning /errors/progress
197 - abort on error/warning; exit status
198 - quiet/ignore-version options
203 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
208 * cautionary accidental
210 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
211 make ofi2 TeX, MusiXTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
212 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
214 - poor man's ascii output possible?
215 - MusiXTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
217 - Common Music Notation
218 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
219 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
222 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
223 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
224 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
227 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
232 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
234 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
235 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
237 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
241 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
244 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
245 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
246 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
249 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
250 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
253 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
254 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
255 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
257 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
258 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
259 - spacing, national styles?
262 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
263 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
265 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
268 - caching breakpoints
270 - allowing users to set them.
272 - specify number of lines
273 - set linelength per line
290 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
292 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
307 * relative mode for pitch entering
309 * bracket (bracketplets)
311 * configure pitch_byte
313 * rest name configurable
319 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
321 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
323 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
325 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
327 * use Real for all y positions.
328 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
330 * half-sharps, half-flats
332 * adaptive accidental spacing.
334 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
336 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
338 * centered whole rest
340 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
341 - use tors feature in lily (?)
343 * declare notenametab?
345 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
348 - A decent scalar type
352 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
354 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
357 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
358 - decent TeX page layout
362 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
364 * textspanner: center position
369 - stack scripts in chords:
370 % fingering: footing:
371 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
373 - slur parts as a script
374 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
376 % toe to bheel four to five
382 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
384 * auxilliary file for caching info.
388 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
396 * Output abstract data structures associated with
399 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
401 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
403 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
410 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
412 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
414 * caching breakpoints
420 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
422 * move towards incremental algorithms.
424 * far fetched language ideas
425 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
426 - programming/macros input
428 * Global type registration.
430 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
431 Type t = get_type ( *p );
432 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
435 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
437 * benchmark band_matrices.
439 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
441 * a real convert-mudela
443 * dots into separate item.
445 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
447 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
451 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
453 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
458 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
459 - 1 thread per Translator
461 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties