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
12 * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
20 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
24 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
26 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
28 * dots & rest collisions.
30 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
39 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
43 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
45 * spanner that is not spanned gives assert ().
47 * the warning about the negative slur/tie length appears twice
50 * The `3' in the meter key is a one or two pixels too thin (at 600dpi)
53 * better hshift (dots, distance, head dependent)
55 * tie/slur dir & curvature
59 * mindist for spanners
66 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
68 * scoping for properties
71 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
75 this modifies \stem for the c2
82 - default abbreviation
86 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
94 - optimal pagebreaking.
96 * put errorlevel in Input class
104 * xdvi: PS magnifying glass.
106 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
108 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
110 * GS: /undefined in draw_beam after XDVI magnification.
112 * Rational global static var.
119 - detect of 16/8 bit files
120 - examples to go with it.
123 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
124 - use straight LP to find minimal "fitting force"
125 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
126 - used fixed point fp
129 - output header info to MIDI too.
134 - shared lib on Solaris too.
136 - generate stuff in out/default, out/sun5-irix etc iso out/
139 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
141 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
157 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
160 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
161 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
162 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
163 - integrate IO checking into stream class
170 * add to MIDI output:
177 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
178 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
179 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
181 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
183 * accidentals per Voice_group
185 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
187 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
188 - help text /(c) notice?
190 - warning /errors/progress
191 - abort on error/warning; exit status
192 - quiet/ignore-version options
197 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
202 * cautionary accidental
204 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
205 make ofi2 TeX, MusiXTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
206 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
208 - poor man's ascii output possible?
209 - MusiXTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
211 - Common Music Notation
212 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
213 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
216 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
217 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
218 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
221 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
226 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
228 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
229 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
231 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
235 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
238 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
239 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
240 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
243 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
244 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
247 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
248 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
249 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
251 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
252 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
253 - spacing, national styles?
256 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
257 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
259 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
262 - caching breakpoints
264 - allowing users to set them.
266 - specify number of lines
267 - set linelength per line
284 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
286 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
301 * relative mode for pitch entering
303 * bracket (bracketplets)
305 * configure pitch_byte
307 * rest name configurable
313 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
315 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
317 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
319 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
321 * use Real for all y positions.
322 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
324 * half-sharps, half-flats
326 * adaptive accidental spacing.
328 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
330 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
332 * centered whole rest
334 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
335 - use tors feature in lily (?)
337 * declare notenametab?
339 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
342 - A decent scalar type
346 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
348 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
351 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
352 - decent TeX page layout
356 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
358 * textspanner: center position
363 - stack scripts in chords:
364 % fingering: footing:
365 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
367 - slur parts as a script
368 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
370 % toe to bheel four to five
376 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
378 * auxilliary file for caching info.
382 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
390 * Output abstract data structures associated with
393 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
395 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
397 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
404 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
406 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
408 * caching breakpoints
414 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
416 * move towards incremental algorithms.
418 * far fetched language ideas
419 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
420 - programming/macros input
422 * Global type registration.
424 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
425 Type t = get_type ( *p );
426 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
429 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
431 * benchmark band_matrices.
433 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
435 * a real convert-mudela
437 * dots into separate item.
439 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
441 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
445 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
447 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
452 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
453 - 1 thread per Translator
455 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties