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-WHAT'S NEW?
 
-* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
-  memory footprint and more flexible code.
+New features in 1.5
 
-* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
-  (default output still to plain TeX).
+* Many speedups
 
-* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+* Figured bass support
 
-* Font: now available as scalable PostScript.  New glyphs: time
-  signature, more note heads.
+* Improved grace notes
 
-* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
-  repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
-  
-* 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.
+* Better spacing.
 
-* More elegant spacing.  Text is spaced exactly.
-
-* Lots of bugfixes.
+* More ancient notation support.