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12 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
14 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
15 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
16 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
17 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
19 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
24 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
25 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
26 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
29 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
31 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
33 instead of the previous
35 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
39 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
41 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
45 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
49 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
52 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
55 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
56 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
57 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
59 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
62 @item Main Developers:
63 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
64 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
65 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
66 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
67 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
68 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
70 @item Core Contributors:
71 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
72 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
73 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
74 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
76 @item Documentation Writers:
77 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
78 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
79 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
82 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
86 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
87 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
90 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
91 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
94 and numerous other contributors.
99 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
101 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
102 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
107 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
109 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
110 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
111 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
116 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
118 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
119 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
120 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
121 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
122 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
123 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
126 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
127 whose work on LilyPond is
128 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
129 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
130 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
131 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
132 using LilyPond internally.
134 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
135 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
140 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
142 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
143 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
144 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
148 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
150 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
151 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
152 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
153 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
155 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
156 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
160 Support for kievan square notation
162 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
164 Music functions have become quite more versatile
167 A full list of new features is given in:
170 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
173 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
175 Main development team:
177 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
178 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
179 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
180 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
181 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
184 Programming contributors:
186 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
187 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
188 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
189 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
191 Documentation contributors:
193 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
197 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
202 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
204 Translation contributors:
206 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada