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-WHAT'S NEW?
+New features in 1.7 since 1.6
 
-* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
-  memory footprint and more flexible code.
+* INPUT
 
-* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
-  (default output still to plain TeX).
+** Completely rewritten support for chord entry. Cleaner and more flexible.
 
-* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
+** Text entry is now done in a separate mode, and is more ergonomic
+than the previous Scheme texts.
 
-* Font: now available as scalable PostScript.  New glyphs: time
-  signature, more note heads.
+** Deeper integration of the input language and Scheme. You can now use
+LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use Scheme expressions instead of
+LilyPond identifiers.
 
-* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
-  repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
-  
-* Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and 
-  time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff 
-  beaming and slurring.
-  
-* --safe option for the paranoid.
+** Music types cleaned up and Schemified.  
 
-* More elegant spacing.  Text is spaced exactly.
+** New syntax for chords:
 
-* Lots of bugfixes.
+	<< PITCHES >>
+
+This is in addition to the < MUSICS > syntax for simultaneous
+music. Combined with this: uniform postfix syntax for articulations:
+
+	c8-[-( d8-]-) 
+
+for a beamed slurred pair of eighth notes.
+
+** User code evaluation during interpreting. Syntax
+
+	\applycontext #SCHEME-FUNCTION
+
+** XML music output.
+
+** Friendly  chord-name exception entry.
+
+* OUTPUT
+
+** Preliminary Sodipodi/SVG output
+
+
+
+* NOTATION
+
+** Completely rewritten text formatting support. It is implemented in a
+completely modular way.
+
+** Chord name formatting completely rewritten.
+
+** Texts on multimeasure rests can be set by the user.
+
+** Zigzagged glissandi
+
+** Cluster support. Syntax:
+
+	NOTE-\startCluster
+
+	..
+	NOTE-\stopCluster
+
+** Beat grouping indications. Syntax:
+
+	#(set-time-signature 7 8 '(3 2 2))
+
+** Nested horizontal brackets for music analysis.
+
+	NOTE-\groupOpen
+		..
+	NOTE-\groupClose
+
+** Gregorian ligatures.
+
+
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
+
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
+
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
+
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
+
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
+
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this
+means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
+
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
+
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
+(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.
+
+* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
+arpeggio brackets.
+
+* Easier music polyphonic music entry.
+
+* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes
+
+* The manual has been thoroughly revised.
+
+* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
+can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.
+
+* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
+which comes with a user-friendly installer.
 
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