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.
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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.