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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.19.11 released @emph{August 3, 2014}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.11. This
15 release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some work
16 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 @subsubheading 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 @subsubheading LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 @emph{March 11, 2014}
40 We are thrilled to announce that the new edition of the songs of Oskar
41 Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
42 and Janek Warchoł [1], will receive the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
43 2014" of the German Music Publishers' Association [2]! The ceremony will
44 take place in a few days at the Frankfurt Musikmesse [3].
46 We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of
47 typographical and editorial excellence of their work. We are also delighted
48 to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free
49 license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered. Please support this
50 initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher [4] or by
51 pledging a contribution at the Indiegogo campaign [5]!
53 [1] @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs}@*
54 [2] @uref{http://www.best-edition.de}@*
55 [3] @uref{https://musik.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/events/awards/best_edition.html}@*
56 [4] @uref{http://www.sound-rel.de}@*
57 [5] @uref{http://igg.me/at/free-fried}
63 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
65 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
66 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
67 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
68 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
70 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
75 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
76 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
77 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
80 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
82 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
84 instead of the previous
86 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
90 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
92 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
96 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
100 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
103 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
106 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
107 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
108 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
110 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
113 @item Main Developers:
114 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
115 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
116 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
117 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
118 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
119 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
121 @item Core Contributors:
122 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
123 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
124 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
125 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
127 @item Documentation Writers:
128 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
129 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
130 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
133 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
137 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
138 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
141 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
142 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
145 and numerous other contributors.
150 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
152 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
153 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
158 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
160 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
161 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
162 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
167 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
169 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
170 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
171 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
172 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
173 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
174 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
177 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
178 whose work on LilyPond is
179 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
180 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
181 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
182 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
183 using LilyPond internally.
185 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
186 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
191 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
193 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
194 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
195 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
199 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
201 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
202 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
203 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
204 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
206 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
207 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
211 Support for kievan square notation
213 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
215 Music functions have become quite more versatile
218 A full list of new features is given in:
221 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
224 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
226 Main development team:
228 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
229 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
230 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
231 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
232 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
235 Programming contributors:
237 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
238 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
239 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
240 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
242 Documentation contributors:
244 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
248 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
253 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
255 Translation contributors:
257 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada