GNU LilyPond

Welcome to the home of the GNU Music Typesetter

WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.2.0

* Much faster spacing engine. 

* Features: automatic staff switching

* Documentation now all is in texinfo.


WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.0.17

* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
  memory footprint and more flexible code.

* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script
  (default output still to plain TeX).

* Convertors for ABC and MUP formats.

* Font: now available as scalable PostScript.  New glyphs: time
  signature, more note heads.

* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
  repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations.
  
* Grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and 
  time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff 
  beaming and slurring.
  
* --safe option for the paranoid.

* More elegant spacing.  Text is spaced exactly.

* Lots of bugfixes.

Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to lilypond-user@gnu.org.

Please send comments on these web pages to lilypond@packages.debian.org

Copyright (c) 1997--2001 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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