-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+New features in 1.5
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Simple tablature
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
- - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74),
- with comparable memory footprint
+* More extensibility
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
- mechanism.
+* Figured bass support
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Improved beam formatting.
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios
+* Improved grace notes.
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* Better spacing. Includes subtle details like optical stem spacing.
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
- and stanza numbering.
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses, more
+shapes.
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
- combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2
- indications as appropriate.
+* Bracket piano pedals.
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Some entry optimizations.
-* 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
+* Font completely revised and improved.
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