---- ../lilypond-1.0.9/NEWS Thu Sep 17 12:03:26 1998
-++ b/NEWS Sat Sep 19 23:46:51 1998
-@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
-pl 9.jbr1
- - scripts/convert-mudela.py: We must close infile and outfile before
- a rename occurs. NT Windows locks open files.
- stepmake/bin/package-zip32.sh: renamed all python bins to:
- <filename>.py in NT Windows distribution.
-
- (need to fix pictures. I know)
- pl 9.jcn1
- - started gnuisation of website
- * filetype and size
- * 'no gifs due to patent problems'
- - bumped stepmake version nr (again):
- please update stepmake/VERSION after making changes to stepmake...
-(need to fix pictures. I know)
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.2.0
-pl 9
-
-pl 8.uu1
- - junked \staff, \multi
- - bf Music_list::Music_list (Music_list const&)
- - AC_SUBST(PATHSEP,DIRSEP)
- - generate Documentation/tex/out/*.bib (AM)
- - a4 fixes (AM)
- - bf: metafont-*.make
- - parser.yy: intlist mods. (mudela 1.0.2)
- - \melodic -> \notes (mudela 1.0.3)
- - typo: calcalute_dependencies ()
+* Much faster spacing engine.
-pl 8.jcn3
- - gif -> png
- * ps-to-pngs.sh
- * stepmake
- * website
- * yodl-1.31.4 (to be released)
- - target 'texinfo' -> 'info'
+* Features: automatic staff switching
-pl 8.jcn2
- - more doco in texinfo (with yodl pl3)
- - bf's: package-diff
+* Documentation now all is in texinfo.
-pl 8.jcn1
- - removed tutorial from texinfo, yodl2texinfo is still rather broken
- - bf: setlocale NUMERIC to 'C'
- - removed ugly space from print-dimen
-*******
-pl 8
- - make website fixes.
+WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.0.17
-pl 7.jcn1
- - minor stepmake/yodl fixes
-
-pl 7.uu1
+* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
+ memory footprint and more flexible code.
- - changed separator in vocabulary
- - added barAlways and defaultBarType properties.
+* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
+ (default output still to plain TeX).
-pl 7.hwn1
- - changed header format. Use a + for concatenation.
+* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
- \header { key = "concat" + "string" }
-
- (mudela 1.0.2)
- - allow computed properties in translator definition
+* Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
+ signature, more note heads.
- GrandStaff = \translator {
- minVerticalAlign = 1.5\staffheight;
- ..
- }
-
- - Music inheritance. Datastructure and parser now follow this grammar
-
- Music_list:
- | Music_list Music
- ;
- Simultaneous_music: '<' Music_list '>'
- ;
- Sequential_music: '{' Music_list '}'
- ;
-
- - bf: Item::do_unlink () don't iterate on attached_span_l_arr_,
-because it is changed by Spanner::set_bounds () (thanks Thomas)
- - bf: URL Documentation/index (thanks EP)
- - bf: twinkle.ly (thanks EP)
- - bf: mi2mu (thanks Murray)
- - bf: mudela-book --dependencies
- - split LaTeX and TeX stuff
-
-pl 7.tca1
- - more Partita's
-
-pl 7.jbr1
- - aclocal.m4,make/lilypond-vars.make: added PATHSEP as AC_SUBST to
- help support Windows NT doco build.
- Documentation/ntweb/index.yo: minor spelling changes
-
-
-*************
-pl 7
- - refman updates by Adriano Moriano.
-
-
-pl 6.jbr2
- - scripts/ly2dvi32.py: Fixed bug with lily input including multiple
- files. Also, we now stream out lilypond log one line at a time
- for better feedback.
-
-pl 6.jbr1
- - scripts/ly2dvi32.py: Added some doco, add postscript option, set
- MFINPUTS along with TEXINPUTS, modified initialization sequence.
- Made some Python style changes per Han-Wen suggestions.
- - Documentation/man/ly2dvi32.yo: Added a manpage for ly2dvi32.
- - stepmake/bin/package-zip32.sh: Added doco distribution. Removed
- the installation directory after zip operation.
- - Documentation/ntweb/index.yo: LILYPOND -> LILYPONDPREFIX and
- comments about MiKTeX-1.11.
-
-pl 6.tca1
- - First movement of Partita II (BWV 826) in
- mutopia/J.S.Bach/Cembalo-Partitas. Lilypond output was so
- beautiful that I'll have to write the rest of the partita.
-
-pl 6.uu2
- - mudela-book.py --dependencies
- - more doc fixes (AM)
- - warn if declaring a keyword.
- - \grouping 4 2*3; now accepted.
- - patches to standchen.ly
-
-pl 6.uu1
-
- - mudela-book handles \input now
- - vocabulary fixes by Adrian Moriano
-
-********
-pl 6
- - largish rehack:
- * Super_element is now an `abstract' class,
- * Paper_score directly contains one Line_of_score. The
- breaking/postprocessing/deletion is mixed with the output phase.
- * Hopefully this will save memory for large scores. (benchmarks, anyone?)
- * bf: Horizontal_vertical_group_item::do_unlink () should call
-
- Axis_group_item::do_unlink ()
-
- - changed LILYPOND to LILYPONDPREFIX
- - added tfm and dvi target for mf/
- - reincluded english.ly
- - doc fixes (thanks, Adrian Moriano)
- - doc fixes.
- - mf: ex height added.
-
-pl 5.mb1
- - Mudela 1.0.1: Changed \accidentals -> \keysignature
- - Identifiers can be used in textual scripts:
-
-
- tempoString="Allegro molto assai";
-
- [...]
-
- c^\tempoString
-
-
-
-pl 5.jbr2
- - aclocal.m4,config.h.in,flower/file-path.cc: Added PATHSEP and
- DIRSEP to configuration to support windows style path and pathlists.
- - stepmake/bin/package-zip32.sh,stepmake/stepmake/package.make:
- zip target now calls package-zip32.sh which creates winnt
- binary distribution zip file. xzip target continues to use
- package-zip.sh for Jan's cross-compiled version.
- - lily/main.cc: Added a search for LILYPOND environment variable to
- better facilitate binary distributions.
- - Documentation/README-W32.yo: Updated information on running lilypond
- on winnt.
-
-
-
-pl 5.jcn1
- - (step)make fixes from yodl
- - minor doco fixes
- - bf: patch in website after 'make release'
-
-pl 5.jbr1
- - Documentation/ntweb/Makefile: Used absolute url for LilyPond Homepage
- - Documentation/ntweb/index.yo: Minor mods per Jan's suggestions
-
-
-
-
-*************
-pl 5
-
-pl 4.jcn1
- - texinfo docs, lots of yodl TODO
- - junked some makefiles
- - ntweb: use BLURB
- - bf: pletvisibility
- - adaptions for yodl-1.31.2's automatic texinfo conversion
- - reinclude of 1.jcn2:
- - renamed -alto -> viola
- - bf: avant-gardish six preludes
- - bf: ly2dvi warnings
-
-pl 4.jbr1
- - stepmake/stepmake/install-outfiles.sub.make: fixed typo
- - scripts/GNUmakefile: add ly2dvi32 to installation list and fixed
- included executable-targets.make to facilate installation of scripts
- - Documentation/ntweb: Fixes to nt web page and added topdoc like
- automation.
-
-*********
-pl 4
-pl 3.mb2
- - Changed text script alignment: center -> left
- - TeX commands counts as one character when calculating
- the length of a Text_def
-
-pl 3.jbr2
- - Documentation/topdocs/index.yo: Added link to NT dist page
- - Documentation/ntweb/: Added Makefile and index.yo to build the
- NT dist page
-
-pl 3.hwn1
- - stepmake hacking
-
-pl 3.uu1
- - stepmake MAKEFILES -> STEPMAKE_TEMPLATES
- - count \texcommands in tex string
-
-
-pl 3.jcn1
- - bf: website: empty toplevel readme's
- - bf: xs4all (again?)
- - can't administer ftp site now: put patch into website
-
-
-pl 3.jbr1
- - stepmake/stepmake/Executable_targets: UNIX cross-compile doesn't
- work with $(DOTEXE) on source of install command.
- - stepmake/Generic_targets: creating multiple dirs with mkdir
- requires -p option
- - scripts/ly2dvi32.py: General and Winnt specific fixes
-
-
-*********
-pl 3
-
-pl 2.uu1
- - solaris 2.6 compile/make website fixes.
- - rm'd WWW.make
- - stepmake .43
- - pcnov095.win.tue.nl -> ftp.cs.uu.nl
+* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
+ repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
-pl 2.hwn1
- - mi2mu naming of track output
- - bf: do key restore sign only once
- - ly2dvi32 preliminary version (JBR)
- - bf index.html link
- - bf mudela-book.py
-
-
-**********
-pl 2
- - scalar compile stuff
- - bf install directory
- - YODL note
- - GUI faq update
- - bf ly2dvi
- - stepmake split: Po.make
- - make check target
- - dist AFMs and manpages
- - split up mudela.yo in glossary.yo, tutorial.yo and refman.yo
-
-pl 1.jcn1
- - www.digicash.com www.xs4all.nl
- - fake msgfmt
- - make uninstall fixes
-
-pl 1.jbr2 - aclocal.m4,stepmake/aclocal.m4,stepmake/stepmake/Variables.make:
- Support install target for unix, unix cross compile, and
- Windows NT
-
-pl 1.jbr1 - stepmake/stepmake/Executable.make: DOTEXE was missplaced
- - scripts/convert-mudela.py: program_id should write to stderr
+* Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and
+ time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff
+ beaming and slurring.
+
+* --safe option for the paranoid.
-**************
-pl 1
- - mi2mu fix: \key "D"
- - \hoffset
- - started new NEWS file
- - lots of stepmake hacking
- - aclocal.m4 copied from stepmake
- - ly2dvi 0.12
- - build the doco from the source tree.
- - include website in RPM
+* More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
+* Lots of bugfixes.