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+* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
 
-WHAT'S NEW?
+* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
 
-* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
-  memory footprint and more flexible code.
+* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
+internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
 
-* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
-  (default output still to plain TeX).
+ - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
 
-* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+ - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
 
-* Font: now available as scalable PostScript.  New glyphs: time
-  signature, more note heads.
+ - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
+  mechanism.
 
-* 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.
+ - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
 
-* More elegant spacing.  Text is spaced exactly.
+* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
 
-* Lots of bugfixes.
+* 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: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
+  and stanza numbering.
+
+* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
+  combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
+  indications as appropriate.
+
+* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+
+* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
+
+* Many bugfixes.
+
+* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+
+* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
+
+* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
+
+* EZ play notation