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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.19.1 released @emph{January 19, 2014}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.1. This
15 release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
16 some 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 require
18 a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
23 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
25 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
26 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
27 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
28 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
30 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
35 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
36 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
37 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
40 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
42 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
44 instead of the previous
46 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
50 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
52 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
56 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
60 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
63 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
66 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
67 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
68 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
70 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
73 @item Main Developers:
74 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
75 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
76 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
77 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
78 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
79 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
81 @item Core Contributors:
82 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
83 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
84 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
85 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
87 @item Documentation Writers:
88 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
89 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
90 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
93 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
97 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
98 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
101 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
102 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
105 and numerous other contributors.
110 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
112 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
113 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
118 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
120 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
121 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
122 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
127 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
129 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
130 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
131 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
132 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
133 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
134 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
137 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
138 whose work on LilyPond is
139 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
140 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
141 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
142 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
143 using LilyPond internally.
145 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
146 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
151 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
153 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
154 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
155 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
159 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
161 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
162 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
163 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
164 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
166 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
167 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
171 Support for kievan square notation
173 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
175 Music functions have become quite more versatile
178 A full list of new features is given in:
181 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
184 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
186 Main development team:
188 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
189 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
190 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
191 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
192 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
195 Programming contributors:
197 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
198 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
199 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
200 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
202 Documentation contributors:
204 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
208 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
213 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
215 Translation contributors:
217 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada