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 * spurious "Junk beam" warnings
13 * standchen: warning: Excentric column (Meter dims?)
15 * optimal pagebreaking.
17 * put errorlevel in Input class
21 * Make general "spanning"-elements and "placer"-elements
23 - naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
25 - bf: abbrevs over whole note
27 - scoping for properties
30 \multi 2 < { \stemup .. } { \stemdown .. } >
34 this modifies \stem for the c2
41 - default abbreviation
45 - bartypes (get rid of derived Span_bar_engravers)
50 * give Items/Spanners access to unbroken originals
52 * Score_bar/Piano_braces, are *not* ordinary bars
56 * ICE: spring-spacer::calcideal()
58 * collision.cc: 138, g++ errors
60 * Rational infty(HUGE_VAL) on glibc / w32
62 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
69 - detect of 16/8 bit files
70 - examples to go with it.
73 - write a faster Spring_spacer (without matrices if possible)
74 - use straight QP to find minimal "fitting force"
75 - relate energybound to linelen unitspace fontsize etc.
79 - write perl script for handling it into databases
80 - write TeX macros to generate titles
81 - adapt make-website to use \header info.
84 - have make dist produce tarball in out/ directory.
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 * placement of bar-numbers
127 \melodic \type Staff { c'4 g'4 }
128 \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; hello4 bye4 < a chord > }
129 \lyric { \id "Lyric" ""; bye4 hello4 }
130 \melodic { \id "Staff" ""; c'4 g'4 }
135 * add to MIDI output:
142 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
143 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
144 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
146 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
148 * accidentals per Voice_group
150 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
152 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
153 - help text /(c) notice?
155 - warning /errors/progress
156 - abort on error/warning; exit status
157 - quiet/ignore-version options
162 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
167 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
168 make ofi2 TeX, MusixTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
169 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
171 - poor man's ascii output possible?
172 - MusixTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
174 - Common Music Notation
175 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
176 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
179 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
180 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
183 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
188 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
190 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
191 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
193 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
197 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
200 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
201 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
202 - stem down too far right
203 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
206 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
207 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
210 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
211 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
212 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
214 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
215 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
216 - spacing, national styles?
219 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
220 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
222 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
225 - caching breakpoints
227 - allowing users to set them.
229 - specify number of lines
230 - set linelength per line
247 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
249 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
264 * relative mode for pitch entering
266 * bracket (bracketplets)
268 * configure pitch_byte
270 * rest name configurable
276 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
278 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
280 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
282 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
284 * use Real for all y positions.
286 * half-sharps, half-flats
288 * adaptive accidental spacing.
290 * unix style paths for LILYINCLUDE env
292 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
294 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
296 * centered whole rest
298 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
299 - use tors feature in lily (?)
301 * declare notenametab?
303 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
308 - A decent scalar type
312 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
314 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
317 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
318 - decent TeX page layout
322 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
324 * textspanner: center position
329 - stack scripts in chords:
330 % fingering: footing:
331 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
333 - slur parts as a script
334 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
336 % toe to bheel four to five
342 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
344 * auxilliary file for caching info.
348 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
356 * Output abstract data structures associated with
359 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
361 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
363 * use an embedded language: Python
370 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
372 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
374 * caching breakpoints
380 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
382 * move towards incremental algorithms.
384 * far fetched language ideas
385 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
386 - programming/macros input
388 * Global type registration.
390 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
391 Type t = get_type ( *p );
392 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
395 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
397 * benchmark band_matrices.
399 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
401 * a real convert-mudela
403 * dots into separate item.
405 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
407 * use position 0 for center of staff iso bottom.
411 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
413 - rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
417 * whole head on ledger line
420 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
421 - 1 thread per Translator
423 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties