-New features in 1.4
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
-DESIGN
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
-* More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
-implementation. LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
- - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this
+means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
- mechanism.
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
- - Access to internal music representation
+* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
+(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.
-* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
+arpeggio brackets.
-* Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
+* Easier music polyphonic music entry.
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
- combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
- indications as appropriate.
+* The manual has been thoroughly revised.
+* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
+can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.
-ERGONOMICS
-
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
-
-* Rewritten Emacs mode
-
-* Cleaned up syntax details
-
-* Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
-
-* All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
-generated automatically.
-
-* Windows point-and-click installer
-
-
-NOTATION FEATURES
-
-* Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
-shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
-
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
- and stanza numbering.
-
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-
-* Easy-play note heads
-
-* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output
-
-* Improved standalone postscript layout.
-
-
-IMPORT/EXPORT
-
-* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
-
-* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
-
-
-MISCELLANEOUS
-
-* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
-
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
-
-* Many many many bugfixes.
+* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
+which comes with a user-friendly installer.
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