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12 @subheading LilyPond 2.19.36 released @emph{January 31, 2016}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
15 2.19.36. 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 LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 @emph{March 11, 2014}
40 We are thrilled that the edition of the songs of Oskar
41 Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
42 and Janek Warchoł [1], received the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
43 2014" of the German Music Publishers' Association [2]. The ceremony
44 took place at the Frankfurt Musikmesse.
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 [3].
52 [1] @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs}@*
53 [2] @uref{http://www.best-edition.de}@*
54 [3] @uref{http://www.sound-rel.de}@*
60 @subheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
62 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
63 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
64 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
65 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
67 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
72 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
73 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
74 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
77 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
79 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
81 instead of the previous
83 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
87 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
89 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
93 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
97 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
100 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
103 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
104 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
105 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
107 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
110 @item Main Developers:
111 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
112 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
113 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
114 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
115 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
116 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
118 @item Core Contributors:
119 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
120 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
121 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
122 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
124 @item Documentation Writers:
125 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
126 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
127 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
130 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
134 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
135 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
138 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
139 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
142 and numerous other contributors.
147 @subheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
149 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
150 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
155 @subheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
157 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
158 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
159 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
164 @subheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
166 The @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
167 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
168 @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
169 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
170 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
171 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
174 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
175 whose work on LilyPond is
176 @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
177 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
178 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
179 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
180 using LilyPond internally.
182 Come @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
183 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
188 @subheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
190 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
191 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
192 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
196 @subheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
198 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
199 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
200 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
201 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
203 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
204 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
208 Support for kievan square notation
210 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
212 Music functions have become quite more versatile
215 A full list of new features is given in:
218 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
221 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
223 Main development team:
225 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
226 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
227 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
228 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
229 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
232 Programming contributors:
234 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
235 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
236 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
237 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
239 Documentation contributors:
241 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
245 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
250 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
252 Translation contributors:
254 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada