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+New features in 1.4
+
 * Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
 
 * Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
 
-* Automatic part combining for orchestral scores.
+* Comprehensive documentation, including tutorial.
+
+* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
+
+* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
 
 * Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
 internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
 
  - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
 
- - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74), 
-   with comparable memory footprint
+ - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
 
- - More tweakability using less memory with new property push
+ - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
   mechanism.
 
  - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
 
-* Piano pedal support
+* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+
+* Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes
+
+* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
 
 * MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
 
 * Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
 
-* Better lyrics placement: Automagical phrasing, melisma alignment,
-  stanza numbering.
+* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
+  and stanza numbering.
 
 * Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
-  combined automatic into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
+  combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
   indications as appropriate.
 
 * Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
 
-* Included extensive glossary
+* Easy-play notation
+
+* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+
+* Mutopia ports collection: easy accessible music archive.
+
+* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
 
 * Many bugfixes.
 
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
 
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
+Removed features
 
-* Translations into Japanese and Russian
+* margin shape