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-* Finale (.etf) import program. 
 
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+New features in 1.5
 
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Many speedups
 
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+* Figured bass support
 
- - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74), 
-   with comparable memory footprint
+* Improved grace notes
 
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Better spacing.
 
-* Piano pedal support
-
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
-
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-
-* Nice lyrics placement: Automagical phrasing and melisma alignment.
-
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: Automagical combining
-  and separating of two voices, with Solo/`a2 indications as appropriate.
-
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
-
-* Included extensive glossary
-
-* Many bugfixes.
-
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
-
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
+* More ancient notation support.