-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
+New features in 1.7 since 1.6
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+* INPUT
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+** Text entry is now done in a separate mode, and is more ergonomic
+than the previous Scheme texts.
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+** Deeper integration of the input language and Scheme. You can now use
+LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use Scheme expressions instead of
+LilyPond identifiers.
- - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74),
- with comparable memory footprint
+** Music types cleaned up and Schemified.
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
- mechanism.
+** New syntax for chords:
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+ << PITCHES >>
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios
+This is in addition to the < MUSICS > syntax for simultaneous
+music. Combined with this: uniform postfix syntax for articulations:
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+ c8-[-( d8-]-)
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+for a beamed slurred pair of eighth notes.
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
- and stanza numbering.
+** User code evaluation during interpreting. Syntax
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
- combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
- indications as appropriate.
+ \applycontext #SCHEME-FUNCTION
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+** XML music output.
-* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
-* Many bugfixes.
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* OUTPUT
-* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output
+** Preliminary Sodipodi/SVG output
+
+
+
+* NOTATION
+
+* Completely rewritten text formatting support. It is implemented in a
+completely modular way.
+
+** Texts on multimeasure rests can be set by the user.
+
+** Zigzagged glissandi
+
+** Cluster support. Syntax:
+
+ NOTE-\openCluster
+ ..
+ NOTE-\closeCluster
+
+** Beat grouping indications. Syntax:
+
+ #(set-time-signature 7 8 '(3 2 2))
+
+** Nested horizontal brackets for music analysis.
+
+ NOTE-\groupOpen
+ ..
+ NOTE-\groupClose
+
+
+
+
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
+
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
+
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
+
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
+
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
+
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this
+means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
+
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
+
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
+(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.
+
+* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
+arpeggio brackets.
+
+* Easier music polyphonic music entry.
+
+* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes
+
+* The manual has been thoroughly revised.
+
+* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
+can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.
+
+* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
+which comes with a user-friendly installer.
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
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