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
13 * check for groff / troff/ nroff et
15 * use kpsepath to find all TeX dirs
25 - break-up heavily-nested score blocks
29 * disable spaces in TeX stuff
33 * handle ^C for tmp/file creation.
35 * WWW mirror/archive for the mailing lists.
37 * dots & rest collisions.
39 * add a screenshot to the website. :)
47 * naming Mozarella, Madeira, Muella?
51 * bf: abbrevs over whole note
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 * Fix profiling. gprof bugreport?
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.
133 - shared lib on Solaris too.
136 * Add mudela-output to Rosegarden.
138 * a musical dictionary. See Documentation/vocabulary-*, other
154 * integrate midi-elts from mi2mu and lily?
157 - derive lily_stream, Dstream, texstream from ostream?
158 - indentable stream as baseclass for TeX stream, lily stream, Dstream.
159 - use dstream feature in mi2mu
160 - integrate IO checking into stream class
167 * add to MIDI output:
174 - make separate class for Grace_*_engravers
175 (which is at Voice_gravs level)
176 - make encapsulated spacing problems.
178 * On-demand loading of simple-engravers?
180 * accidentals per Voice_group
182 * Convert all ref/bib stuff into BibTeX.
184 * Output class, handles : (smallish)
185 - help text /(c) notice?
187 - warning /errors/progress
188 - abort on error/warning; exit status
189 - quiet/ignore-version options
194 * elaborate Staff_side baseclass:
199 * cautionary accidental
201 * Output an output format independent (ofi) typeset file; and
202 make ofi2 TeX, MusiXTex, Display PostScript, PostScript,
203 Ascii... interpreters. (difficult)
205 - poor man's ascii output possible?
206 - MusiXTeX output possible? (would have to be done before break calc.)
208 - Common Music Notation
209 - PostScript output (esp. Beams, Slurs, etc)
210 - Move all Score_elems, into libmutype.a
213 - Doc Mutopia (Music To The People)
214 - Doc (C) stuff of sheet music
215 - a better format? SGML? TeX? Info?
218 * TeX spanners , use texbeam.cc as an example (smallish)
223 * Rewrite Stem, Beam and Rhythmic_grouping (hairy)
225 - doc on Rhythmic_grouping
226 - general shaving on Beam and Stem
228 - separate visual from rhythmic info even more
232 - adapt for multiple font sizes.
235 - Ledger lines, should be separate item: Ledger_lines, Ledger_lines
236 - set different line sizes / thicknesses
237 - beam stem showthrough, inter beam sizes (french vs german style)
240 - left/right note balls should be handled by Collision:
241 < \multi 2; { \stem 1; <b c> } { <f as b> } >
244 - merge key{item} & localkey{item}?
245 - do conventional keys (C G A, F B E, a e fis, d as des, etc ),
246 besides lists of flats/sharps, possibly via declaration
248 - key undo: \key bes; .. . \key; should print natural
249 - special key: \key bes 'b bis';
250 - spacing, national styles?
253 - redo Notehead to allow digits as heads
254 - add a \tablature {} lexer mode for easy entering
256 * should adjust stemlength for flag number.
259 - caching breakpoints
261 - allowing users to set them.
263 - specify number of lines
280 * c4 4 4 4 for c4 c4 c4 c4?
282 * neatly (and readably) expressing concurrent
297 * relative mode for pitch entering
299 * bracket (bracketplets)
301 * configure pitch_byte
303 * rest name configurable
309 * progress when creating MIDI elts.
311 * A range for context errors (eg. mark both { and }. )
313 * lyric in staff (sharpsharp in staff, text below)
315 * write Dynamic_line (to group dynamics horizontally)
317 * use Real for all y positions.
318 - use translate_axis( .. ,Y_AXIS)
320 * half-sharps, half-flats
322 * adaptive accidental spacing.
324 * handle EOF graciously in error messages.
326 * caching Item/spanner dimensions.
328 * centered whole rest
330 * qtor, btor, mtor-> tor( QUIET_ver ), tor( DEBUG_ver ), etc.
331 - use tors feature in lily (?)
333 * declare notenametab?
335 * midi esp.: use I32 iso int where 32 bits are needed (or assumed...)
338 - A decent scalar type
342 * binsearch/hash for identifiers
344 * stafftypes: voice names/ instrument names.
347 - Decent TeX titledefs (\tempo, \metron, etc. )
348 - decent TeX page layout
352 * C meter iso 4/4, idem for alla breve, etc.
354 * textspanner: center position
359 - stack scripts in chords:
360 % fingering: footing:
361 < a-4 c-2 g-1 > < c-\ltoe e-\lheel >
363 - slur parts as a script
364 - stack parameterised scripts for fingering and footing:
366 % toe to bheel four to five
372 (where "to" is a tiny bow)
374 * auxilliary file for caching info.
378 * clean solution for staffsize in items.
386 * Output abstract data structures associated with
389 * create libmudela, or liblily_frontend
391 * move MIDI stuff (including Quantization) to a ANSI C libmidi library.
393 * use an embedded language: Python, Scheme
400 * y -dims in internote? Staff-space? X-dimensions?
402 * Spacing_request for manually adjusting spacing
404 * caching breakpoints
410 * used fixedpoint arithmetic for min. energy.
412 * move towards incremental algorithms.
414 * far fetched language ideas
415 - design meta-language like TeX and Metafont
416 - programming/macros input
418 * Global type registration.
420 My_class * p = create_object( My_class )
421 Type t = get_type ( *p );
422 if ( t <= get_type( q ))
425 * naming of Voice_group/Voice
427 * versioning stuff (cvt mudela, mudela, etc.)
429 * a real convert-mudela
431 * dots into separate item.
433 * use String iso Text_def for lyrics.
437 * lyrics in chords still fuck up.
439 * rewire acknowledge_element() logic with a process_acknowledged()
444 - 1 thread per element/ 1 thread per line
445 - 1 thread per Translator
447 * Use hooks/dependency graphs for properties