+2006-05-15 Erlend Aasland <erlenda@gmail.com>
+
+ * Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely: niente and rotation news
+
2006-05-14 Erlend Aasland <erlenda@gmail.com>
* lily/include/stencil.hh
- * lily/stencil.cc (rotation): new function. Makes it possible
+ * lily/stencil.cc (rotate): new function. Makes it possible
to rotate a stencil around a given offset.
* lily/grob.cc (get_print_stencil): add rotation support
@end ignore
+@item
+Objects may be rotated using the @code{rotation} property.
+@lilypond[ragged-right,fragment,relative=2]
+{
+ \override NoteHead #'rotation = #'(45 0 0)
+ c1^\markup { \rotate #180 "test" }
+}
+@end lilypond
+
+This feature was contributed by Erlend Aasland.
+
+@item
+Hairpins now support circled tips (al niente notation).
+@lilypond[ragged-right,fragment,relative=2]
+{
+ \override Hairpin #'circled-tip = ##t
+ c2\< c\!
+ c4\> c\< c2\!
+}
+@end lilypond
+
+This feature was contributed by Erlend Aasland.
+
@item
The MusicXML convertor has been sped up, and has rudimentary support
for percussion notation. It will also condense multi-bar rests to