-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+New features in 1.5
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in
+* Development hosted at savannah.gnu.org
- - Improved speed, with comparable memory footprint
+* Tablature support.
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
-* Piano pedal support
+* More extensibility.
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* Figured bass support.
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Improved grace notes.
-* Included extensive glossary
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
-* Many bugfixes.
+* 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.
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* Font completely revised and improved.
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
+
+* Manual thoroughly revised.
+
+* Many bugfixes.
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