New features 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.
