+New features in 1.7 since 1.6
-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
+* Deeper integration of the input language and Scheme. You can now use
+LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use Scheme expressions instead of
+LilyPond identifiers.
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+* Music types cleaned up and Schemified.
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
- - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74),
- with comparable memory footprint
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
- mechanism.
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
-* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this
+means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
-* Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
+(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
+arpeggio brackets.
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
- and stanza numbering.
+* Easier music polyphonic music entry.
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
- combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
- indications as appropriate.
+* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* The manual has been thoroughly revised.
-* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
+* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
+can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.
-* Many bugfixes.
+* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
+which comes with a user-friendly installer.
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
-
-* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
-
-* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output
-
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
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