+* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
-WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.2.0
+* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
-* Much faster spacing engine.
+* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
+internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
-* Features: automatic staff switching
+ - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
-* Documentation now all is in texinfo.
+ - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74),
+ with comparable memory footprint
+ - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
+ mechanism.
-WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.0.17
+ - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
-* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
- memory footprint and more flexible code.
+* Piano pedal support
-* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
- (default output still to plain TeX).
+* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
-* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-* Font: now available as scalable PostScript. New glyphs: time
- signature, more note heads.
+* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
+ and stanza numbering.
-* 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.
+* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
+ combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
+ indications as appropriate.
-* More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
+* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
-* Lots of bugfixes.
+* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
+
+* Many bugfixes.
+
+* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+
+* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output
+
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian