* lily/beam.cc: read grow-direction for feathered beaming.

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

diff --git a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
index 77eb3572b8b915c7dec7bc78435213cad36f5743..ce3d424b6b56fc8de13feeb8eda581f449928507 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
+++ b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
@@ -66,13 +66,25 @@ which scares away people.
 
 @end ignore
 
+@item
+The beam printing code has been completely rewritten, and now includes
+support for feathered beaming,
+
+@lilypond[ragged-right,fragment,relative=2]
+  \override Beam #'grow-direction = #LEFT
+  c16[
+    c c c
+    c c c c ] 
+@end lilypond 
+
+This feature was sponsored by Jamie Bullock.
+
 @item
 The @code{\note} markup command now also accepts note head styles.
 
 @lilypond[ragged-right,fragment,relative=2]
 c4^\markup {
   \override #'(style . triangle) \note-by-number #2 #1 #1 = 100
-
 }
 @end lilypond