7 * More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
8 implementation. LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
10 - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
12 - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
15 - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
17 - Access to internal music representation
19 * New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
21 * Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
23 * Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
25 * Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
26 combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
27 indications as appropriate.
32 * Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
34 * Rewritten Emacs mode
36 * Cleaned up syntax details
38 * Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
40 * All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
41 generated automatically.
43 * Windows point-and-click installer
48 * Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
49 shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
51 * Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
54 * Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
56 * Easy-play note heads
58 * ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output
60 * Improved standalone postscript layout.
65 * dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
67 * Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
72 * Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
74 * Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
76 * Many many many bugfixes.