Major news for the 1.4 releases:
DESIGN
* More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
implementation. LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
- Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
- More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
mechanism.
- Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
- Access to internal music representation
* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
* Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
indications as appropriate.
ERGONOMICS
* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
* Rewritten Emacs mode
* Cleaned up syntax details
* Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
* All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
generated automatically.
* Windows point-and-click installer
NOTATION FEATURES
* Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
and stanza numbering.
* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
* Easy-play note heads
* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output
* Improved standalone postscript layout.
IMPORT/EXPORT
* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
MISCELLANEOUS
* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
* Many many many bugfixes.
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