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12 @subheading LilyPond 2.19.40 released @emph{April 17, 2016}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
15 2.19.40. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
16 work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
17 some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
18 require a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.18
24 @subheading Lilypond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014}
26 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2.
27 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
28 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
29 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
31 This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
32 updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
38 @subheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
40 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
41 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
42 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
43 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
45 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
50 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
51 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
52 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
55 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
57 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
59 instead of the previous
61 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
65 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
67 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
71 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
75 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
78 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
81 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
82 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
83 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
85 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
88 @item Main Developers:
89 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
90 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
91 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
92 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
93 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
94 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
96 @item Core Contributors:
97 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
98 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
99 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
100 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
102 @item Documentation Writers:
103 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
104 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
105 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
108 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
112 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
113 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
116 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
117 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
120 and numerous other contributors.
125 @subheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
127 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
128 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
133 @subheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
135 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
136 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
137 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
142 @subheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
144 The @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
145 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
146 @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
147 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
148 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
149 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
152 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
153 whose work on LilyPond is
154 @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
155 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
156 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
157 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
158 using LilyPond internally.
160 Come @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
161 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
166 @subheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
168 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
169 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
170 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
174 @subheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
176 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
177 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
178 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
179 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
181 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
182 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
186 Support for kievan square notation
188 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
190 Music functions have become quite more versatile
193 A full list of new features is given in:
196 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
199 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
201 Main development team:
203 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
204 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
205 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
206 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
207 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
210 Programming contributors:
212 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
213 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
214 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
215 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
217 Documentation contributors:
219 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
223 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
228 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
230 Translation contributors:
232 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada