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(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
