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