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-* Finale (.etf) import program. 
+* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
 
 * Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
 
@@ -10,25 +10,38 @@ internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
  - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74), 
    with comparable memory footprint
 
+ - 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, Custodes
 
 * MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
 
 * Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
 
-* Nice lyrics placement: Automagical phrasing and melisma alignment.
+* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
+  and stanza numbering.
 
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: Automagical combining
-  and separating of two voices, with Solo/`a2 indications as appropriate.
+* 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
 
-* Included extensive glossary
+* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
 
 * Many bugfixes.
 
 * Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
 
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
+* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
+
+* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
+
+* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian