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12 @subheading LilyPond 2.19.40 released @emph{April 17, 2016}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
15 2.19.40. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
16 work 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 @subheading 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 @subheading Two LilyPond projects in Google Summer of Code 2016 @emph{April 23, 2016}
40 We are happy to see two students, Nathan Chou and Jeffery Shivers, working on
41 LilyPond as participants in the Google Summer of Code this year. We hope they
42 produce great results and stay in the developer community afterwards.
44 Nathan will tackle an annoying limitation, namely the unability of spanners
45 to cross voices. His work will make a class of ugly workarounds obsolete.
46 Jeffery will bring the ScholarLY package[1] to production quality and add a
47 LaTeX package to it, making it possible to create beautiful critical reports
48 from data encoded directly in the LilyPond score.
50 [1] @uref{https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly}@*
56 @subheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
58 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
59 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
60 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
61 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
63 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
68 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
69 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
70 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
73 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
75 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
77 instead of the previous
79 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
83 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
85 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
89 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
93 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
96 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
99 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
100 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
101 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
103 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
106 @item Main Developers:
107 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
108 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
109 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
110 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
111 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
112 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
114 @item Core Contributors:
115 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
116 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
117 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
118 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
120 @item Documentation Writers:
121 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
122 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
123 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
126 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
130 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
131 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
134 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
135 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
138 and numerous other contributors.
143 @subheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
145 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
146 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
151 @subheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
153 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
154 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
155 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
160 @subheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
162 The @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
163 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
164 @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
165 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
166 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
167 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
170 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
171 whose work on LilyPond is
172 @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
173 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
174 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
175 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
176 using LilyPond internally.
178 Come @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
179 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
184 @subheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
186 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
187 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
188 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
192 @subheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
194 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
195 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
196 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
197 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
199 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
200 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
204 Support for kievan square notation
206 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
208 Music functions have become quite more versatile
211 A full list of new features is given in:
214 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
217 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
219 Main development team:
221 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
222 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
223 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
224 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
225 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
228 Programming contributors:
230 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
231 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
232 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
233 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
235 Documentation contributors:
237 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
241 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
246 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
248 Translation contributors:
250 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada