-WHAT'S NEW?
+New features in 1.5
-* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
- memory footprint and more flexible code.
+* Development hosted at savannah.gnu.org
-* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
- (default output still to plain TeX).
+* Tablature support.
-* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
-* Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
- signature, more note heads.
+* More extensibility.
-* 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.
+* Figured bass support.
-* More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
-* Lots of bugfixes.
+* Improved grace notes.
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses,
+ambituses, more shapes.
+
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
+
+* Some music entry optimizations.
+
+* Font completely revised and improved.
+
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
+
+* Manual thoroughly revised.
+
+* Many bugfixes.