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@@ -1,7 +1,74 @@
 New features in 2.20 since 2.18
 *******************************
 
-   • The music function ‘\\unfoldRepeats’ can now take an optional
+   • It is now possible to move systems with reference to their current
+     position using the ‘extra-offset’ subproperty of
+     ‘NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details’.  Both vertical
+     and horizontal changes are possible.  This feature is especially
+     useful for making slight adjustments to the default vertical
+     position of individual systems.  See *note
+     (lilypond-notation)Explicit staff and system positioning:: for more
+     information.
+
+   • It is now possible to add text to analysis brackets through the
+     ‘HorizontalBracketText’ object.
+          \layout {
+            \context {
+              \Voice
+              \consists "Horizontal_bracket_engraver"
+            }
+          }
+
+          {
+            \once \override HorizontalBracketText.text = "a"
+            c''\startGroup d''\stopGroup
+            e''-\tweak HorizontalBracketText.text "a'" \startGroup d''\stopGroup
+          }
+          image of music
+
+   • The ends of hairpins may now be fine-tuned using the ‘shorten-pair’
+     grob property, which previously only affected text-spanners like
+     ‘TupletBracket’ and ‘OttavaBracket’.  Positive values offset to the
+     right, negative to the left.
+          { \once \override Hairpin.shorten-pair = #'(2 . 2)
+            c'1~\<
+            c'2~ c'\!
+            \once \override Hairpin.shorten-pair = #'(-2 . -2)
+            c'1~\<
+            c'2~ c'\! }
+          image of music
+
+   • In fret-diagrams the distance between frets and the distance
+     between strings is now independently adjustable.  Available are
+     ‘fret-distance’ and ‘string-distance’ as subproperties of
+     ‘fret-diagram-details’.
+          fretMrkp = \markup { \fret-diagram-terse #"x;x;o;2;3;2;" }
+
+          \markuplist
+          \override #'(padding . 2)
+          \table #'(0 -1) {
+            "default"
+
+            \fretMrkp
+
+            "fret-distance"
+
+            \override #'(fret-diagram-details . ((fret-distance . 2)))
+            \fretMrkp
+
+            "string-distance"
+
+            \override #'(fret-diagram-details . ((string-distance . 2)))
+            \fretMrkp
+          }
+          image of music
+
+   • Accidental rules can now be defined across ‘ChoirStaff’ contexts.
+     Two new rules ‘choral’ and ‘choral-cautionary’ are available that
+     combine the characteristics of ‘modern-voice’ and ‘piano’ or their
+     equivalents with cautionary accidentals.
+
+   • The music function ‘\unfoldRepeats’ can now take an optional
      argument-list specifying which type(s) of repeated music should be
      unfolded.  Possible entries are ‘percent’, ‘tremolo’, ‘volta’.  If
      the optional argument-list is unspecified, ‘repeated-music’ will be
@@ -746,3 +813,36 @@ New features in 2.20 since 2.18
      but significantly larger file size.  Print quality at high
      resolutions will be unaffected.
 
+   • Default text fonts have been changed from ‘Century Schoolbook L’,
+     ‘sans-serif’, and ‘monospace’.
+
+     For ‘svg’ backend:
+     Family      Default font
+     -----------------------------------
+     _roman_     ‘serif’
+     _sans_      ‘sans-serif’
+     _typewriter_‘monospace’
+
+     ‘serif’, ‘sans-serif’, and ‘monospace’ are ‘generic-family’ in SVG
+     and CSS specifications.
+
+     For other backends:
+     Family      Default font (alias)   Alias definition lists
+     ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+     _roman_     ‘LilyPond Serif’       TeX Gyre Schola, C059, Century
+                                        SchoolBook URW, Century Schoolbook L,
+                                        DejaVu Serif, ..., serif
+     _sans_      ‘LilyPond Sans         TeX Gyre Heros, Nimbus Sans, Nimbus
+                 Serif’                 Sans L, DejaVu Sans, ..., sans-serif
+     _typewriter_‘LilyPond Monospace’   TeX Gyre Cursor, Nimbus Mono PS,
+                                        Nimbus Mono, Nimbus Mono L, DejaVu
+                                        Sans Mono, ..., monospace
+
+     ‘LilyPond Serif’, ‘LilyPond Sans Serif’, and ‘LilyPond Monospace’
+     are font aliases defined in the LilyPond dedicated FontConfig
+     configuration file ‘00-lilypond-fonts.conf’.  Where a character
+     dosen’t exist in the first font listed, the next font listed will
+     be used instead for that character.  For details of alias
+     definitions, please see to ‘00-lilypond-fonts.conf’ under the
+     installed directory.
+