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38 @unnumbered New features in 2.7 since 2.6
41 This document is also available in @uref{NEWS.pdf,PDF}. It's part of
42 the @uref{../,LilyPond Documentation}
54 * only show verbatim input for syntax/input changes
56 * try to be as brief possible in those cases
58 * don't try to provide real-world examples, they often get too big,
59 which scares away people.
65 Music for multiple parts can be interleaved, similar to MUP input.
66 This is done with the @code{\parallelMusic} function,
68 @lilypond[verbatim,raggedright]
69 \parallelMusic #'(voiceA voiceB) {
70 r8 g'16[ c''] e''[ g' c'' e''] r8 g'16[ c''] e''[ g' c'' e''] |
72 r8 a'16[ d''] f''[ a' d'' f''] r8 a'16[ d''] f''[ a' d'' f''] |
83 This feature was contributed by Nicolas Sceaux.
85 @item Alignments of staves may be tuned per system.
87 #(set-global-staff-size 13)
89 \relative c'' \new StaffGroup <<
94 #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
95 #'line-break-system-details
96 #'((alignment-offsets . (0 -5 -20)))
99 #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
100 #'line-break-system-details
101 #'((alignment-offsets . (0 -15 -20)))
107 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
109 @item Individual systems may be positioned manually,
113 tagline = "lily was here"
116 #(set-default-paper-size "a7" 'landscape)
126 #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
127 #'line-break-system-details
135 annotateheaders = ##t
140 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača and Nicolas Sceaux.
142 @item A linebreaking configuration can now be saved as a @file{.ly}
143 file automatically. This allows vertical alignments to be stretched to
144 fit pages in a second formatting run. See
145 @inputfileref{input/regression,page-layout-twopass.ly} for an
148 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača and Nicolas Sceaux.
150 @item The tie formatting for chords has been further polished. More
151 cases are handled gracefully, and all scoring parameters may now be
152 changed through the @code{details} property of the @code{Tie} grob.
154 This refinement was sponsored by Steve Doonan.
156 @item Positions of staff lines may now be set individually, for
159 @lilypond[raggedright]
160 \new Staff \relative c' {
161 \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'(-7 -2 0 7)
166 This feature was sponsored by Andrea Valle.
169 @item A MusicXML importer is included now.
171 It was sponsored by among others, Mark van den Borre,
172 and Muziekacademie Lede.
175 Stem direction on the center staff line are now interpolated between
176 neighbors. This results in less stem direction changes, leading to a
177 more even appearance. For example,
179 @lilypond[raggedright]
187 This feature was sponsored by Mike Rolish and Basil Crow.
190 Slurs now avoid @code{TupletNumber}s, and tuplet numbers may enter the
193 @lilypond[raggedright]
196 \override TupletBracket #'bracket-visibility = ##f
197 \override TupletBracket #'staff-padding = ##f
198 \override Slur #'details #'region-size = #6
202 c( \stemDown g' \stemNeutral c,)
207 This feature was sponsored by Trent Johnston.
210 @item Tuplet brackets and numbers are implemented as separate grobs,
211 @code{TupletBracket} and @code{TupletNumber}.
213 This rewrite was sponsored by Trent Johnston.
215 @item String arguments for music functions may be specified without
216 @code{#} marks. Now, \clef and \bar are also music functions.
218 @item Ties in chords are also formatted using a scoring based
219 formatting. This reduces the number of collisions for ties in chords,
221 @lilypond[raggedright,fragment,relative=2]
222 <b d f g> ~ <b d f g>
225 Here, the tie for the D is flipped, in spite the default rule for
228 This rewrite was sponsored by Steve Doonan.
230 @item With the @code{\tweak} music function, layout objects that are directly
231 connected to input may be tuned easily,
233 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment,verbatim,raggedright]
235 \tweak #'font-size #3 c
236 \tweak #'color #red d
237 \tweak #'style #'cross g
238 \tweak #'duration-log #1 a
242 This feature was sponsored by Sean Reed and Bertalan Fodor.
244 @item Generic music functions may now also be used on articulations
245 and chord elements, eg.
249 e-\keepWithTag #'bla -\tag #'bla ^2 >
252 This feature was sponsored by Sean Reed and Bertalan Fodor.
255 @item Spaces between lyrics and distance between syllables with
256 hyphens may now be separately tuned through the
257 @code{LyricSpace} grob.
259 This feature has been sponsored by Bertalan Fodor.
261 @item Texts set in a TrueType font are now kerned. This requires CVS
264 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment,raggedright]
269 @item Using the @TeX{} no longer requires linking or dynamically
270 opening the kpathsea library, making the backend more easily usable on
273 This fix was sponsored by Black Trash Productions.
275 @item The horizontal location of rehearsal marks can be adjusted by
276 setting the @code{rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol} property,
278 @lilypond[raggedright]
283 \set Score.rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol = #'key-signature
287 \set Score.rehearsalMarkAlignSymbol = #'clef
295 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
299 It's now possible to easily create deeply nested system start
302 @lilypond[raggedright]
305 \set StaffGroup.systemStartDelimiterHierarchy
306 = #'(SystemStartSquare (SystemStartBracket a (SystemStartSquare b)) d)
316 In addition, there is now also support for ``square'' system start
319 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
322 Tie formatting now uses scoring. This opens the road to formatting
323 which handles complex situations require tradeoffs between different
326 This refactoring has been sponsored by Steve Doonan.
329 Each grob property may also be a ``grob closure.'' This means that it
330 is possible to combine functions. For example, the @code{Y-offset} of
331 a @code{InstrumentName} grob is defined to be
334 ,(ly:make-simple-closure
336 ,(ly:make-simple-closure
337 (,ly:self-alignment-interface::y-aligned-on-self))
338 ,(ly:make-simple-closure
339 (,ly:side-position-interface::y-aligned-on-support-refpoints)))
343 During execution, the @code{Y-offset} of an @code{InstrumentName} is computed
347 (+ (ly:self-alignment-interface::y-aligned-on-self @var{grob})
348 (ly:self-alignment-interface::y-aligned-on-support-refpoints @var{grob}))
353 Calculation of extent and offset of grob is now controlled via the
354 @code{X-extent}, @code{Y-extent}, @code{X-offset} and @code{Y-offset}
355 properties, for example
358 \override TextScript #'Y-offset = #-6
362 hard codes @code{TextScript} grobs to be 6 spaces below their Y-parent
366 Each grob property can be a procedure. If this is the case, it is
367 assumed to be a routine that calculates said property. This is a
368 major internal cleanup, which also provides advanced tweakability for
369 power users. For example,
372 \override Beam #'direction
374 (if (> 4 (ly:grob-array-length (ly:grob-object grob 'stems)))
380 With this code fragment, the direction of a beam is decided to be up
381 or down, depending on the number of stems in the beam.
385 Support for figured bass has been rewritten. Now it supports
386 continuation lines, slashed figures, and its figures, brackets, and
387 alignments may tuned separately.
389 @lilypond[raggedright,fragment]
391 \relative { c4 c c c }
393 \set useBassFigureExtenders = ##t
394 <6+ 4 3> <6 4 3> <4 3+> <5/ 7/\+>
398 This rewrite was sponsored by Trent Johnston and John Mandereau.
401 Subproperties, like the @code{details} field of @code{Slur} and
402 @code{Tie} may now be tuned with @code{\override}. For example,
405 \override Stem #'details #'beamed-lengths = #'(4 4 3)
409 shortens the stems in beams.
412 The default paper size may now be set from the command line using
416 Beamlets may stick out of the side of beams.
419 @lilypond[fragment,raggedright,relative=2]
421 \override Beam #'break-overshoot = #'(-0.5 . 0.5)
422 \set stemLeftBeamCount = #2
425 \set stemRightBeamCount = #3
430 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
435 Vertical alignments of staves can now be tuned easily for individual
438 @lilypond[raggedright]
439 #(set-global-staff-size 13)
446 #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
447 #'line-break-system-details
448 #'((fixed-alignment-extra-space . 15))
460 This feature was sponsored by Nicolas Sceaux.
463 Vertical spacing for page layout can now be tuned for each system
464 individually. The dimensions that can be tuned can be visualized.
467 #(set-default-paper-size "a7" 'landscape)
470 \paper { annotatespacing = ##t }
474 These features were sponsored by Trevor Bača and Nicolas Sceaux.
477 The slope of a stem-tremolo may be set manually
479 @lilypond[fragment,relative=1,raggedright]
481 \once \override StemTremolo #'slope = #0.45
485 This feature was sponsored by Sven Axelsson.
488 Laissez vibrer ties can be created with @code{\laissezVibrer},
490 @lilypond[fragment,raggedright,relative=1]
491 <c e g>\laissezVibrer r <d f>\laissezVibrer
494 This feature was sponsored by Henrik Frisk.
497 The order of words in @code{\markup} commands may now be reversed by
498 setting the @code{text-direction} property. This is useful for
499 Right-to-Left languages like Hebrew.
501 This feature was sponsored by Aaron Mehl.
504 Texts over multi measure rests can stretch the corresponding measure,
505 if the appropriate @code{spring-and-rods} callback is set.
507 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment,raggedright]
508 \override MultiMeasureRestText #'springs-and-rods
509 = #ly:multi-measure-rest::set-text-rods
510 c1 R1 R1^"Very long long long text"
513 This feature was sponsored by Kris Shaffer.
516 @item @textanchor{tie-chords}
517 Formatting of ties in chords has been improved. Ties no longer collide
518 with note heads and stems. In addition, it is possible to manually
519 specify tie formatting
521 @lilypond[relative=2, fragment,raggedright]
522 <a c d f> ~ <a c d f>
524 \override TieColumn #'tie-configuration =
525 #'((0 . -1) '() (5.5 . 1) (7 . 1))
526 <b d f g> ~ <b d f g>
529 This improvement has been sponsored by Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton,
530 Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor Bača, and Vicente Solsona
534 Formatting of isolated, single ties has been improved. Now, ties avoid
535 staff lines, flags and dots, without compromising their shape.
537 @lilypond[fragment,raggedright]
540 c16 c2...~ c16 ~ c2... |
541 c4~c8 c8~c16 c16~c32 c16.~[ c64]~ c64[ c8..] |
545 This improvement has been sponsored by Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton,
546 Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor Bača, and Vicente Solsona
550 @item @textanchor{repeat-counter}
551 With the @code{countPercentRepeats} property,
552 percent repeats get incremental numbers to indicate the accumulated repeat count.
554 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment,raggedright]
555 \set countPercentRepeats = ##t
556 \repeat percent 4 { c1 }
558 \repeat percent 4 { c2 c2 }
561 This feature was sponsored by Yoshinobu Ishizaki
564 Text scripts such as fingering instructions and dynamics avoid
565 collisions with slurs
567 @lilypond[fragment,relative=1]
569 b_1( f'_1_2_3 c_3_4_5 a)
571 c-2_\markup { \italic {"cresc."}} ( f_\markup {x} c)
576 Tuplets can be made to reach the next non-tuplet note by setting the
577 @code{tupletFullLength} property,
579 @lilypond[fragment,relative=2]
581 \remove Forbid_line_break_engraver
585 \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 32)
586 \set tupletFullLength = ##t
587 \times 2/3 { c8[ c c] }
592 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
595 When @code{strict-note-spacing} is set, notes are spaced without regard
596 for clefs, bar lines, and grace notes. For example,
598 @lilypond[fragment,relative=2]
599 \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'strict-note-spacing = ##t
600 \new Staff { c8[ c \clef alto c \grace { c16[ c] } c8 c c] c32[ c32] }
603 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
606 Beams support the @code{break-overshoot} property, for example
608 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment]
609 \set allowBeamBreak = ##t
610 \override Beam #'break-overshoot = #'(1.0 . 2.0)
614 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
617 Proportional notation is supported. Notes can be spaced proportional
618 to their time-difference by assigning a duration to
619 @code{proportionalNotationDuration}. For example,
621 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment,raggedright]
623 \set Score.proportionalNotationDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16)
624 \new Staff { c8[ c c c c c] c4 c2 r2 }
625 \new Staff { c2 \times 2/3 { c8 c c } c4 c1 }
629 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
632 Symbol sizes (e.g. accidentals) are disregarded for spacing if
633 @code{uniform-stretching} of the @code{SpacingSpanner} grob is set,
636 @lilypond[relative=2,fragment]
638 \override Score.SpacingSpanner #'uniform-stretching = ##t
639 \new Staff { c16[ c c c c c c c c c16] }
641 \times 6/7 { c16 c c cis c c c }
647 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
650 Endings of broken tuplet brackets can be tuned. For example, you can
651 add arrows to the brackets,
653 @lilypond[fragment,raggedright,relative=2]
654 \override TupletBracket
656 (markup #:arrow-head X LEFT #f)
657 (markup #:arrow-head X RIGHT #f))
659 c c c \bar "empty" \break c c
663 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
666 @item @textanchor{arrow-glyph}
667 Arrow heads were added to the Feta font.
672 filled, to the right: \hspace #2.0 \fontsize #6 \arrow-head #0 #1 ##t
673 open, down: \hspace #2.0 \fontsize #6 \arrow-head #1 #-1 ##f
678 These glyphs have been sponsored by Trevor Bača.
682 Nested tuplets are automatically positioned,
684 @lilypond[fragment,raggedright,relative=2]
685 \set tupletNumberFormatFunction = #fraction-tuplet-formatter
688 \times 3/5 { a a a a a }
692 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
695 Music expressions can be displayed, in LilyPond notation, using the
696 new @code{\displayLilyMusic} function. For instance:
698 \displayLilyMusic \transpose c a, { c d e f }
705 This feature was contributed by Nicolas Sceaux.
708 The current bar number may be checked with @code{\barNumberCheck}, eg.
715 will print a warning if it doesn't happen in measure 22.
718 If @code{showLastLength} is set, only the last few measures of a piece
719 are rendered, which speeds up correcting scores. For example, setting
722 showLastLength = R1*5
727 will render only the last five measures (assuming 4/4 time signature)
730 @item @textanchor{simple-melismata}
731 Melismata can be specified simply in the lyrics now, eg.
733 @lilypond[relative=1,verbatim,fragment]
741 This feature was sponsored by Nancho Alvarez
744 Suggested accidentals (for notating musica ficta) may be switched on
745 with @code{suggestAccidentals}
747 @lilypond[verbatim,fragment,relative=2]
748 \set suggestAccidentals = ##t
752 This feature was sponsored by Nancho Alvarez.
755 The setting @code{whichBar} and time-bookkeeping is now split into a
756 @code{Default_bar_line_engraver} and @code{Timing_translator}
759 @item @textanchor{pitched-trill}
760 Explicit pitches may be added to trills,
762 @lilypond[relative,verbatim,fragment]
763 \pitchedTrill c4\startTrillSpan fis f\stopTrillSpan
766 This feature was sponsored by D. Josiah Boothby and Jamie Bullock
769 Markup now supports formatting of text paragraphs, using
770 @code{\wordwrap} and @code{\justify}.
772 This feature was sponsored by Sven Axelsson.
776 For older news, go to
777 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html},
778 or @uref{../,go back} to the Documentation index.