8 * More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
9 implementation. LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
11 - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
13 - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
16 - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
18 - Access to internal music representation
20 * New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
22 * Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
24 * Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
26 * Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
27 combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
28 indications as appropriate.
33 * Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
35 * Rewritten Emacs mode
37 * Cleaned up syntax details
39 * Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
41 * All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
42 generated automatically.
44 * Windows point-and-click installer
49 * Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
50 shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
52 * Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
55 * Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
57 * Easy-play note heads
59 * ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output
61 * Improved standalone postscript layout.
66 * dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
68 * Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
73 * Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
75 * Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
77 * Many many many bugfixes.