June 16th, 2011· Lilypond now helps beams avoid collisions with other grobs! This feature works completely with manual beams. It also works for all automatic beams that do not end right before a change in staff. For this special case, please use manual beams.
· The Articulate script by Peter Chubb, which is GPLv3 licensed, is now a part of the distribution. It allows easy generation of improved MIDI files that perform non-legato by default, legato slurs, staccato, tempo markings, trills, etc.
· Lilypond now engraves woodwind fingering charts.
· Single beat repeats for sixteenth or shorter notes and beat repeats for measures containing notes of varying durations are now supported.
August 25th, 2010· New option -dinclude-settings=INCLUDEFILE.ly, which causes lilypond to include the given file before the score is processed. This allows the user to change global settings without the need to change the score itself. That way, several different editions/version (e.g. different page sizes) can be generated from a file without having to modify the score for each version.
· The autobeaming settings syntax has been changed. beatLength, beatGrouping, beamSettings, and measureGrouping have all been eliminated. Autobeaming is now controlled by baseMoment, beatStructure, and beamExceptions. Default settings for each of these properties can be stored for any time signature in time-signature-settings, so that when the time signature is changed, the autobeaming will automatically change. The new syntax should be much easier and require fewer overrides.
· The SVG backend has optional support for WOFF fonts. Using the Scheme option -d svg-woff together with the SVG backend selection -d backend=svg, produces SVG output with CSS WOFF font selection.
· The LilyPond G clef has been rotated 1.5 degrees clockwise for improved balance. The old and new versions can be compared by looking at the documentation: old version, new version.
· Text crescendo spanners can now be added directly using \cresc, \dim and \decresc.
May 7th, 2010· Text crescendo spanners can now be added directly.
· The documented syntax of ‘lilypond’ environments in the LaTeX mode of lilypond-book has been changed to conform with standard LaTeX syntax: options now come after the environment name.
· Aesthetics of shape note heads have been enhanced. Variable line thicknesses have been implemented.
· All note widths have been made consistent.
· Minor shape note commands that use the relative major key for scale steps have been added.
· A variant of the segno sign is provided.
· Context modifications (\with blocks) can be stored in variables and inserted into contexts or other \with blocks.
· A half-open articulation was added.
· The Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm is now fully supported for single-line markup due to enhanced integration with Pango.
· LilyPond is now licensed under the GNU GPL v3+.
In tablature, frets can be indicated with labels other than numbers:
Layout objects can be printed over a white background, which whites-out objects in lower layers which lie beneath:
Chords can be repeated using the q shortcut:
With two-sided mode, margins for odd and even pages can be set using inner-margin and outer-margin:
· Paper margin defaults, as specified in ‘ly/paper-defaults-init.ly’, apply to the default paper size (a4) and are automatically scaled according to the paper size chosen.
· All combinations of left-margin, right-margin and line-width work now. There is no more need to set line-width manually unless you explicitly want to.
· Support for using an alternative music font, such as Gonville, is now added.
· In addition to the existing \hspace markup command, a new \vspace command has been added to provide an easy and flexible way to add vertical space in markups.
· The direction of manual beams can be set with ^[ and _[.
· A version of the breve note head has been added with two vertical lines on each side.
· Instrument names and vocal names now take into account the extent of system start delimiters in other staves for their positioning, resulting in improved default alignment for left-, center- and right-aligned names.
· Braces in markup can now be selected by point size using the markup commands \left-brace and \right-brace
· Dashed and dotted slurs, phrasing slurs, and ties have been made variable thickness, and partially dashed slurs are now available.
· An eyeglasses markup was added, indicating strongly to look at the conductor for instructions:A snap-pizzicato (also known as Bartok-pizzicato) articulation was added.
· FretBoards now have a chordChanges property to keep repeated FretBoard objects from being typeset.
July 22nd, 2009Dashed and dotted slurs, phrasing slurs, and ties have been made variable thickness, and partially dashed slurs are now available:
An eyeglasses markup was added, incidating strongly to look at the conductor for instructions:
A snap-pizzicato (also known as Bartok-pizzicato) articulation was added:
· Tuplet number formatting functions are now available to print other fractions and to add notes to the number or fraction
October 12th, 2008· This is is one of the last releases before 2.12, so testing it is encouraged. In addition to a bugfix in empo command, this release has lot of updates to Spanish and German documentation translations, and the stylesheet for HTML documentation has been improved.
April 22nd, 2008· setEasyHeads has been renamed to easyHeadsOn, and a new command easyHeadsOff reverts note heads to normal heads.
· fatText and emptyText have been renamed to extLengthOn and extLengthOff, respectively.
· Underlining is now possible with the underline markup command.
· It is now possible to specify, using the page-count variable in the paper block, the number of pages that will be used.
· A new page breaking function, ly:minimal-breaking, is dedicated to books with many pages or a lot of texts.
· A table of contents is included using markuplines able-of-contents. Elements are added to it using the ocItem command.
· Text spreading over several pages is entered using the markuplines keyword. Builtin markup list commands, such as justified-lines or wordwrap-lines may be used, and new ones created using the define-markup-list-command Scheme macro.
· Particular points of a book may be marked with the label command. Then, the page where these points are placed can be refered to using the page-ref markup command.
· Page breaking and page turning commands (pageBreak,
· oPageBreak, etc) can be used at top-level, between scores and top-level markups.
· The following options are now changed as a -d sub-option: --backend, --safe, --preview and --no-pages (which became -dno-print-pages). The -b option does not exist any more.
· Improved testing procedure now catch changes in CPU and memory performance, page layout, MIDI results and warnings. This helps to reduce the number of regression errors during development, resulting in more stable releases.
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