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12 @subheading LilyPond 2.19.80 released @emph{October 14, 2017}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
15 2.19.80. This release is a pre-release test version for the upcoming
16 stable 2.20 release. If you
17 require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
23 @subheading LilyPond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014}
25 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2.
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 This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
31 updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
37 @subheading Two LilyPond projects in Google Summer of Code 2016 @emph{April 23, 2016}
39 We are happy to see two students, Nathan Chou and Jeffery Shivers, working on
40 LilyPond as participants in the Google Summer of Code this year. We hope they
41 produce great results and stay in the developer community afterwards.
43 Nathan will tackle an annoying limitation, namely the unability of spanners
44 to cross voices. His work will make a class of ugly workarounds obsolete.
45 Jeffery will bring the ScholarLY package[1] to production quality and add a
46 LaTeX package to it, making it possible to create beautiful critical reports
47 from data encoded directly in the LilyPond score.
49 [1] @uref{https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly}@*
55 @subheading LilyPond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
57 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
58 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
59 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
60 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
62 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
67 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
68 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
69 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
72 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
74 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
76 instead of the previous
78 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
82 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
84 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
88 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
92 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
95 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
98 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
99 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
100 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
102 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
105 @item Main Developers:
106 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
107 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
108 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
109 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
110 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
111 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
113 @item Core Contributors:
114 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
115 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
116 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
117 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
119 @item Documentation Writers:
120 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
121 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
122 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
125 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
129 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
130 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
133 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
134 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
137 and numerous other contributors.