Many requested improvements have not been
yet implemented for several reasons:
- The author's natural lazyness (!)
- More seriously: many of them would require using some more
registers; unfortunately, TEX registers are not numerous (256 of each
kind and the limit of
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\dimen registers is nearly reached) and we
are afraid many requested new features would make TEX stupidly crash even
when typesetting reasonable scores.
- We do not think it is wise to introduce in MusicTEX itself a great
number of macros which would be poorly used by most users: the reason is that
TEX memory is hardly limited and that unused macros may occupy some TEX
storage which could make things crash because of normalshapemediumseriesTeX capacity
exceeded...