Re: Help wanted : announcement posting?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ed Baskerville writes:

> I just sent announcements to Macintouch, MacMinute, and MacNN. The
> other Mac sites will pick it up in no time from those two.

Thanks

> There should also be a listing maintained at versiontracker.com if
> you want it to be found by Mac people looking for music
> software...I'd be happy to maintain this, if you like.

Ok, please do so.

Jan.

> --Ed
>
> On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I could use some help with spreading the lily 2.6 announcement
>> (attached). I've already posted it to
>>
>>         address@hidden
>>         comp.music.research
>>     comp.os.linux.announce
>>     comp.text.tex,rec.music.compose
>>         freshmeat.net
>>
>> can someone post it to the following lists?
>>
>>       address@hidden
>>       address@hidden
>>       address@hidden
>>       address@hidden
>>       address@hidden
>>       address@hidden
>>       address@hidden
>>
>> It should also be posted on all relevant websites. These are Music,
>> MacOS X, or Linux websites (any other?). For example,
>>
>>  - harmony central
>>  - linux audio blog
>>
>>    (any others?)
>>
>> Please notify address@hidden when you've posted the
>> announcement, so we can add them to our regular announce list for
>> lilypond 2.8
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- 
>>  Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
>>
>> Subject: LilyPond version 2.6 available - Music Notation for Everyone.
>>
>>
>> LilyPond is a free/open source package to create beautiful music
>> notation.  With version 2.6, LilyPond is now truly for everyone.
>>
>>
>> - For every platform
>>
>>   LilyPond now installs in a snap on Windows, MacOS X, and any version
>>   of Linux/x86.  Get up and running in minutes!
>>
>> - For every language
>>
>>   Pango text formatting lets you print Unicode lyrics in your favorite
>>   script and font.
>>
>> - For every application
>>
>>   Create SVG files, and edit them in Inkscape.
>>
>>
>>
>> In addition, version 2.6 adds support for
>>
>>  - staves starting anywhere on the page
>>  - solfa notation
>>  - arrowed lines
>>  - better auto-beaming
>>  - circled text
>>  - string-number notation
>>  - better ledger line formatting
>>  - score separators
>>  - cleaner syntax for text markup
>>  - pagebreaks around titles
>>  - stemlets on beams
>>  - easier titles customization
>>  - direct PostScript or SVG output
>>  - (te)TeX no longer necessary
>>  - revised manual
>>  - website now translated into Dutch and French
>>
>> Grab it at
>>
>>   http://lilypond.org
>>
>>
>>
>> A big thank-you goes out to our contributors, translators, website
>> translators and bug-hunters:
>>
>>
>> CONTRIBUTORS
>>
>> Andreas Scherer, Arno Waschk, Bertalan Fodor, Carl Sorensen, Christian
>> Hitz, David Jedlinsky, Erlend Aasland, Heikki Junes, John Williams,
>> Jonatan Liljedahl, Juergen Reuter, Mats Bengtsson, Matthias Neeracher,
>> Mathieu Giraud, Nicolas Sceaux, Pal Benko, Sebastiano Vigna, Tatsuya
>> Ono, Vicente Solsona Della, Werner Lemberg, and Yuval Harel.
>>
>> TRANSLATORS
>>
>> Abel Cheung, John Mandereau, Olcay Yıldırım, Roland Stigge and Steven
>> Michael Murphy
>>
>> WEBSITE TRANSLATORS
>>
>> Gauvain Pocentek, Jean-Charles Malahieude, John Mandereau, and Tineke
>> de Munnik.
>>
>> SPONSORS
>>
>> Bertalan Fodor, Chris Sawer, Gunther Strube, Hans Forbrich, Jonathan
>> Walther, Marcus Macauley, and Steve Doonan.
>>
>> BUG HUNTERS/SUGGESTIONS
>>
>> Alexandre Beneteau, Andreas Scherer, Anthony W. Youngman, Antti
>> Kaihola, Arjan Bos, David Bobroff, Bernard Hurley, Bruce Fairchild,
>> Bruce McIntyre, Bruce Fairchild, Daniel Johnson, David Rogers, Dylan
>> Nicholson, Ed Jackson, Erik Ronström, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano,
>> Gilles Sadowski, Jack O'Quin, Jeff Smith, Johannes Schindelin, John
>> Mandereau, Jose Miguel Pasini, Josiah Boothby, Juergen Reuter, Karl
>> Hammar, Laura Conrad, Olivier Guéry, Paul Scott, Richard Schoeller,
>> Rob Platt, Roman Stöckl-Schmidt, Russ Jorgensen, Simon Bailey, Stephen
>> McCarthy, Sven Axelsson, Tapio Tuovila, Tom Cato Amundsen, Will Oram,
>> and Wolfgang Hoffmann.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Happy music printing,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The LilyPond development team,
>>
>> Han-Wen Nienhuys & Jan Nieuwenhuizen
>> Core development
>>
>> Graham Percival
>> Documentation Editor
>>
>> Erik Sandberg
>> Bugmeister
>>
>> Pedro Kroeger
>> Build meister
>
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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