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. LilyPond input is *plain text*. So, you can use your favorite text editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in papers. If you don't like typing, then you can use it to print music from other programs, using one of the numerous input filters. LilyPond output looks *beautiful*. The font and the layout algorithms were inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and elegant look from your LilyPond output. And if you don't like the looks, you can tweak almost everything. LilyPond is *free software*. It is part of the GNU Project. It is licensed under GNU General Public License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with almost no restrictions. LilyPond is part of the 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 ====== * 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. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/ _______________________________________________ Gnu-music-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-music-discuss