-WHAT'S NEW?
-* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
- memory footprint and more flexible code.
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
-* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
- (default output still to plain TeX).
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
-* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
-* Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
- signature, more note heads.
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
-* 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.
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
-* More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this
+means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
+
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
+
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
+(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.
+
+* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
+arpeggio brackets.
+
+* Easier music polyphonic music entry.
+
+* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes
+
+* The manual has been thoroughly revised.
+
+* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
+can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.
+
+* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
+which comes with a user-friendly installer.
-* Lots of bugfixes.
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