# LilyPond version 2.10 available—10 years anniversary release

Utrecht the Netherlands—November, 2006.

The initial inspiration for LilyPond came ten years ago when two musician friends grew disappointed with the bland and boring look of computer formatted scores. Every musician prefers to read beautiful music, so couldn't we programmers solve that printing problem?

LilyPond just does that: it prints music in the best traditions of classical engraving with minimum fuss. Don't waste time on tuning spacing, moving around symbols, or shaping slurs. Impress friends and colleagues with sharp sheet music!

Check out LilyPond at `http://lilypond.org`

We are proud to announce the 10-year anniversary release, LilyPond version 2.10.

## New stuff

- Better page turns.

  Horizontal and vertical spacing is tuned simultaneously to put page turns at rests or explicitly marked places.

- Flat music export format.

  A much simpler intermediate input/output format has been added. In the long term, this will enable other programs to read LilyPond music.

- Small features and improvements.

  This release adds falls and doits, dashed barlines, al niente hairpins, right hand fingerings for guitar, better formatting of tied chords, automatic beaming and nested tuplets.

A full list of new features is at `http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html`

Enjoy!

Han-Wen Nienhuys - Core development
Jan Nieuwenhuizen - Core development
Graham Percival - Documentation Editor and Bug Meister
Mats Bengtsson - Support Guru

## Contributors

Angelo Contardi, David Feuer, Erik Sandberg, Erlend Aasland, Guido Amoruso, Heikki Junes, and Joe Neeman.

## Sponsors

Andrew Sidwell, Anthony Youngman , Chris Sawer, David Griffel, Jamie Bullock, Kieren MacMillan, Michael Meixner , Paul Scott, Rick Hansen, Steve Doonan, Trent Johnston, Trevor Bača, Vivian Barty-Taylor and William Wilson.

## Documentation helpers

Cameron Horsburgh, Dave Luttinen, Eduardo Vieira, Erlend Aasland, Geoff Horton, and Juergen Reuter.

## Bughunters

Albert Frantz, Arvid Grøtting, Anthony Youngman, Aurèle Duda, Ben Hoefer, Bernie Arai, Cameron Horsburgh, Charles Cave, Christian Hitz, Christopher Ellis, Claude Routhier, Colin Wilding, Daniel Tonda Castillo, David Rogers, Francisco Vila, Harald Wellmann, Henrik Frisk, Johannes Schindelin, John Williams, J. Leung, Karim Haddad, Karl Hammar, Keith Packard, Kieren MacMillan, Lee T. Wilkirson, Lieke van der Meer, Luc Wehli, Manuzhai, Mark Dewey, Marcus Macauley, Markus Schneider, Matti Aaltonen, Michael Meixner, Michael Welsh Duggan, Milan Zamazal, Orm Finnendahl, Paul Scott, Phillip Kirlin, Quentin Spencer, Rainer Typke, Rick Hansen, Rutger Helmers, Ruud van Silfhout, Sietse Brouwer, Stephen Carter, Stephen Kress, Thies Albrecht, Toine Schreurs, Trent Johnston, Trevor Bača, Trevor Daniels, Vaclav Smilauer, Vicente Solsona Dellá, Victor Eijkhout, Villum Sejersen, Werner Lemberg, Will Oram, and Zoltan V. Laszlo.