* NEWS: added news for 1.8 regarding ancient notation

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 2003-07-03  Juergen Reuter  <reuter@ipd.uka.de>
 
+       * NEWS: added news for 1.8 regarding ancient notation
+
        * Documentation/user/refman.itely (Gregorian square neumes
        ligatures): fixed typo
 

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 @refbugs
 
-Use special heads for lower/upper head of Pes only when heads are
-stacked.
-
 Scandicus Deminutus: Punctum Auctum Ascendens overlaps with
 Semivocalis head; this looks awful.
 

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        R1*20^\markup { "GP" }
 
-** Ancient notation ... ?? ...  (Jurgen?)
+** Ancient notation now supports ligatures in Gregorian square neumes
+notation, roughly following the typographical style of the Liber
+hymnarius of Solesmes, published in 1983.  The line breaking and
+horizontal spacing algorithms however are still completely messed up
+by ligatures.
 
 ** Glissandi can now be printed using the zigzag style.