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-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
 
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+New features in 1.4
+
 
-* Automatic part combining for orchestral scores.
+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 (undone for now, by .73 + .74), 
-   with comparable memory footprint
+ - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
 
- - More tweakability using less memory with new property push
+ - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
   mechanism.
 
  - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
 
-* Piano pedal support
+ - Access to internal music representation
 
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
 
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
 
-* Better lyrics placement: Automagical phrasing, melisma alignment,
-  stanza numbering.
+* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
 
 * Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
-  combined automatic into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
+  combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
   indications as appropriate.
 
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
 
-* Included extensive glossary
+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.
+
+* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+
+* Easy-play note heads
+
+* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+* Improved standalone postscript layout.
+
+
+IMPORT/EXPORT
+
+* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
+
+* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
+
+
+MISCELLANEOUS
 
-* Many bugfixes.
+* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
 
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
 
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
+* Many many many bugfixes.
 
-* Translations into Japanese and Russian