LilyPond 1.4 -- Print sheet music beautifully

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

After almost two years of hacking and 154 patchlevels, we proudly
present to you the latest incarnation of LilyPond, LilyPond 1.4



WHAT CAN LILYPOND DO FOR YOU?

LilyPond prints beautiful sheet music.  It produces music notation
from a description file. It excels at typesetting classical music, but
you can also print pop-songs.


WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Surf to

     http://www.lilypond.org



DOWNLOAD

Surf to

        ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/v1.4



WHAT IS NEW IN 1.4 ?

Design
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* 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
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* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output

* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.


Miscellaneous
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* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.

* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian

* Many many many bugfixes.


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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/