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-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
+New features in 1.4
 
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
 
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+DESIGN
+
 
- - 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
 
@@ -15,35 +15,64 @@ internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
 
  - 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.
 
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
+* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
 
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* 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,
+
+ERGONOMICS
+
+* 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
+
+* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+* Improved standalone postscript layout.
 
-* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
 
-* Many bugfixes.
+IMPORT/EXPORT
 
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
 
-* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
+* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
 
-* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+MISCELLANEOUS
+
+* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
 
 * Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
 
-* EZ play notation
+* Many many many bugfixes.
+