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-[todo]
+* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
 
+* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+
+* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
+internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+
+ - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+
+ - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74), 
+   with comparable memory footprint
+
+ - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
+  mechanism.
+
+ - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+
+* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+
+* Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes
+
+* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
+
+* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+
+* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+
+* 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.
+
+* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+
+* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
+
+* Many bugfixes.
+
+* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+
+* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
+
+* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian