-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+New features in 1.5
-* Automatic part combining for orchestral scores.
+* Tablature support.
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+* More extensibility.
- - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74),
- with comparable memory footprint
+* Figured bass support.
- - More tweakability using less memory with new property push
- mechanism.
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Improved grace notes.
-* Piano pedal support
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses,
+ambituses, more shapes.
-* Better lyrics placement: Automagical phrasing, melisma alignment,
- stanza numbering.
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
- combined automatic into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
- indications as appropriate.
+* Some music entry optimizations.
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Font completely revised and improved.
-* Included extensive glossary
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
-* Many bugfixes.
+* Manual thoroughly revised manual.
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
-
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
-
-* Translations into Japanese and Russian
+* Many bugfixes