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+New features in 1.7 since 1.6
 
-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
-
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
-
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
-
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
-
- - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
-
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
-  mechanism.
-
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
-
-* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
-
-* Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes
-
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
-
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
-
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
-  and stanza numbering.
-
-* 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
-
-* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
-
-* Many bugfixes.
-
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
-
-* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
-
-* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
-
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
+* Deeper integration of the input language and Scheme. You can now use
+LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use Scheme expressions instead of
+LilyPond identifiers.