[fomus-devel] LilyPond 2.10—10 years anniversary release

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

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

     * Creating music with good page turning points is easier than ever.

       The new page breaking algorithm will tune both horizontal and 
vertical spacing. Hence, page turns will only fall at rests or places 
that you mark explicitly.

     * Flat music export format.

       LilyPond uses an elegant input format, that uses identifiers, 
arbitrary nested structures and inline Scheme expressions. While the 
format is easy to write and read for humans, it is less so for programs.

       With this release, Erik Sandberg has contributed internal 
rewrites that make it possible to output a much simpler intermediate 
format. In the long term, this will enable other programs to read 
LilyPond music.

     * Many small features and formatting improvements.

       This includes support for 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.




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  Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen at xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen