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 * add a screenshot to the website.
16 * spurious "Junk beam" warnings
18 * standchen: warning: Excentric column (Meter dims?)
20 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
24 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
28 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
30 * scoping for properties
33 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
37 this modifies \stem for the c2
44 - default abbreviation
48 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
53 * optimal pagebreaking.
55 * put errorlevel in Input class
61 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
63 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
70 - detect of 16/8 bit files
71 - examples to go with it.
74 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
75 - use straight QP to find minimal "fitting force"
76 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
80 - write perl script for handling it into databases
81 - write TeX macros to generate titles
82 - adapt make-website to use \header info.
86 - shared lib on Solaris too.
88 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
91 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
93 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
109 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
112 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
113 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
114 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
115 - integrate IO checking into stream class
122 * add to MIDI output:
129 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
130 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
131 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
133 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
135 * accidentals per Voice_group
137 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
139 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
140 - help text /(c) notice?
142 - warning /errors/progress
143 - abort on error/warning; exit status
144 - quiet/ignore-version options
149 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
154 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
155 make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
156 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
158 - poor man's ascii output possible?
159 - MusixTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
161 - Common Music Notation
162 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
163 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
166 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
167 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
170 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
175 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
177 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
178 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
180 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
184 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
187 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
188 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
189 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
192 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
193 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
196 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
197 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
198 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
200 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
201 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
202 - spacing, national styles?
205 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
206 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
208 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
211 - caching breakpoints
213 - allowing users to set them.
215 - specify number of lines
216 - set linelength per line
233 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
235 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
250 * relative mode for pitch entering
252 * bracket (bracketplets)
254 * configure pitch_byte
256 * rest name configurable
262 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
264 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
266 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
268 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
270 * use Real for all y positions.
271 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
273 * half-sharps, half-flats
275 * adaptive accidental spacing.
277 * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
279 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
281 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
283 * centered whole rest
285 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
286 - use tors feature in lily (?)
288 * declare notenametab?
290 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
295 - A decent scalar type
299 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
301 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
304 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
305 - decent TeX page layout
309 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
311 * textspanner: center position
316 - stack scripts in chords:
317 % fingering: footing:
318 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
320 - slur parts as a script
321 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
323 % toe to bheel four to five
329 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
331 * auxilliary file for caching info.
335 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
343 * Output abstract data structures associated with
346 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
348 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
350 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
357 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
359 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
361 * caching breakpoints
367 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
369 * move towards incremental algorithms.
371 * far fetched language ideas
372 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
373 - programming/macros input
375 * Global type registration.
377 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
378 Type t = get_type ( *p );
379 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
382 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
384 * benchmark band_matrices.
386 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
388 * a real convert-mudela
390 * dots into separate item.
392 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
394 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
398 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
400 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
406 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
407 - 1 thread per Translator
409 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties