* Documentation/user/instrument-notation.itely (Laissez vibrer

[lilypond.git] / Documentation / topdocs / NEWS.tely

diff --git a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
index 71de922b5b4f852a0c52a6de8c5cc04599eb66cf..03c191c2a1d139bc754693a00c13aa9b07fc9bb0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
+++ b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ See user manual, \NAME\
 @end ifnothtml
 
 
+@macro textanchor{NAME}
+@html
+<a name="\NAME\"></a>
+@end html
+@end macro
+
+
 @documentencoding utf-8
 @documentlanguage en
 
@@ -35,8 +42,40 @@ This document is also available in @uref{NEWS.pdf,PDF}.
 @end ifhtml
 
 
+
+
 @itemize @bullet
+
 @item
+Laissez vibrer ties can be created with @code{\laissezVibrer},
+
+@lilypond[fragment,raggedright,relative=1]
+  <c e g>\laissezVibrer  <d f>\laissezVibrer
+@end lilypond
+
+This feature was sponsored by Henrik Frisk.
+
+@item
+The order of words in @code{\markup} commands may now be reversed by
+setting the @code{text-direction} property. This is useful for
+Right-to-Left languages like Hebrew.
+
+This feature was sponsored by Aaron Mehl.
+
+@item
+Texts over multi measure rests can stretch the corresponding measure,
+if the appropriate @code{spacing-procedure} property is set.
+
+@lilypond[relative=2,fragment,raggedright]
+\override MultiMeasureRestText #'spacing-procedure
+  = #Multi_measure_rest::set_text_rods
+c1 R1 R1^"Very long long long text" 
+@end lilypond
+
+This feature was sponsored by Kris Shaffer.
+
+
+@item @textanchor{tie-chords}
 Formatting of ties in chords has been improved. Ties no longer collide
 with note heads and stems. In addition, it is possible to manually
 specify tie formatting
@@ -50,8 +89,8 @@ specify tie formatting
 @end lilypond
 
 This improvement has been sponsored by Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton,
-Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, by Trevor Baca, and 
-Vicente Solsona Dellá.
+Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor Baca, and Vicente Solsona
+Dellá.
 
 @item
 Formatting of isolated, single ties has been improved. Now, ties avoid
@@ -66,11 +105,11 @@ staff lines, flags and dots, without compromising their shape.
 @end lilypond
 
 This improvement has been sponsored by Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton,
-Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, by Trevor Baca, and Vicente Solsona
+Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor Baca, and Vicente Solsona
 Dellá.
  
 
-@item
+@item  @textanchor{repeat-counter}
 With the @code{countPercentRepeats} property,
 percent repeats get incremental numbers to indicate the accumulated repeat count.
 
@@ -186,7 +225,7 @@ add arrows to the brackets,
 This feature was sponsored by Trevor Baca.
 
 
-@item
+@item @textanchor{arrow-glyph}
 Arrow heads were added to the Feta font.
 
 @lilypond[]
@@ -250,7 +289,7 @@ showLastLength = R1*5
 will render only the last five measures (assuming 4/4 time signature)
 of a piece.
 
-@item
+@item @textanchor{simple-melismata}
 Melismata can be specified simply in the lyrics now, eg.
 
 @lilypond[relative=1,verbatim,fragment]
@@ -279,7 +318,7 @@ The setting @code{whichBar} and time-bookkeeping is now split into a
 @code{Default_bar_line_engraver} and @code{Timing_translator}
 respectively.
 
-@item
+@item @textanchor{pitched-trill}
 Explicit pitches may be added to trills,
 
 @lilypond[relative,verbatim,fragment]