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.