X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fweb%2Fnews-front.itexi;h=0bf271ab80858f52f5442e45c1a75aaee39f64fc;hb=e1f5924956f81f51a09023f7f82eeb57d11a7e51;hp=8d45279fb857c7aee23067d83d36de39f509ca76;hpb=7e3df6b879dcd850a4e7645b1afc151111c77436;p=lilypond.git diff --git a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi index 8d45279fb8..ffd1266cc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi +++ b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi @@ -1,139 +1,140 @@ @c -*- coding: utf-8; mode: texinfo; -*- -@c This file is part of lilypond-web.texi and community.itexi +@c This file is part of community.itexi @c when you add a new item, consider moving the lowest item(s) @c into news.itexi. @c keep two blank lines between news entries -@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2 +@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG on Release Work @newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.95 released! @emph{November 3, 2013} - -We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond@tie{}2.17.95 as -beta release for the upcoming stable release@tie{}2.18. The -developers are still busy finding solutions for some last-minute -problems, but the release is supposed to be feature-complete, the -documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be -overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the -latest version, see @rprogram{Updating files with convert-ly}. -Please test this release and report back any problems, see -@rweb{Bug reports}. +@subheading LilyPond 2.19.51 released @emph{November 20, 2016} + +We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond +2.19.51. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some +work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but +some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you +require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18 +version. @newsEnd @newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013} +@subheading LilyPond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014} + +We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2. +LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the +highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of +traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. -Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at -@uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}! +This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including +updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version. @newsEnd -@newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013} -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly -to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that -only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version. +@newsItem +@subheading Two LilyPond projects in Google Summer of Code 2016 @emph{April 23, 2016} -@newsEnd +We are happy to see two students, Nathan Chou and Jeffery Shivers, working on +LilyPond as participants in the Google Summer of Code this year. We hope they +produce great results and stay in the developer community afterwards. -@newsItem -@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012} - -The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October -issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the -@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop, -meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last -August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond -triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that -venue. - -There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup -whose work on LilyPond is -@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding, -solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer -and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from -@uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service} -using LilyPond internally. - -Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read -LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly -encouraged! -@newsEnd +Nathan will tackle an annoying limitation, namely the unability of spanners +to cross voices. His work will make a class of ugly workarounds obsolete. +Jeffery will bring the ScholarLY package[1] to production quality and add a +LaTeX package to it, making it possible to create beautiful critical reports +from data encoded directly in the LilyPond score. -@newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012} +[1] @uref{https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly}@* -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of -updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We -recommend that everybody upgrade to this version. @newsEnd + @newsItem -@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012} +@subheading LilyPond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013} -We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1. -LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the +We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0. +LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. -Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous -main stable version. A few major improvements are: +Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might +be most visible: -@itemize +@itemize @bullet @item -Support for kievan square notation +Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather +than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces +the occurrence of unsightly large gaps. + @item -User and programming interfaces have greatly improved +Sets and overrides can now use the syntax +@example +\override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit." +@end example +instead of the previous +@example +\override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit." +@end example + @item -Music functions have become quite more versatile +Triplets with a given group length can now be written as +@example +\tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @} +@end example +instead of +@example +\times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} +@end example @end itemize -A full list of new features is given in: +A full list of noteworthy new features is given in: @example -@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html} +@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html} @end example -Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by... +Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose +financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to +focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle. -Main development team: +LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by -Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin, -Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, -John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, -Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, -Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave, -Jan Warchoł +@table @asis +@item Main Developers: +Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian +Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner +Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen +Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil +Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin +Villenave, Janek Warchoł -Programming contributors: +@item Core Contributors: +Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl, +James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith +OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer, +Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen -Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker, -Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt, -Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren, -Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol +@item Documentation Writers: +Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James +Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker, +Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini -Documentation contributors: +@item Bug Squad: +Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph +Palmer -James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil +@item Support Team: +Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan, +Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer -Bug squad: +@item Translators: +Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric, +Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada -Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer, -James Lowe - -Support: - -Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes - -Translation contributors: - -Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada +@end table +and numerous other contributors. @newsEnd - - -