New features in 1.4
-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
-
-* Comprehensive documentation, including tutorial.
-
-* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
-
-* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
+DESIGN
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+* More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
+implementation. LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
- Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
- Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+ - Access to internal music representation
+
* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
-* Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes
+* Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
+
+* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+
+* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
+ combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
+ indications as appropriate.
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+ERGONOMICS
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+
+* Rewritten Emacs mode
+
+* Cleaned up syntax details
+
+* Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
+
+* All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
+generated automatically.
+
+* Windows point-and-click installer
+
+
+NOTATION FEATURES
+
+* Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
+shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
and stanza numbering.
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
- combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
- indications as appropriate.
+* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Easy-play note heads
-* Easy-play notation
+* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* Improved standalone postscript layout.
-* Mutopia ports collection: easy accessible music archive.
-* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output
+IMPORT/EXPORT
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
+* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
+
+* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
-* Many bugfixes.
+MISCELLANEOUS
+
+* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
+
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
-Removed features
+* Many many many bugfixes.
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