... and to prove that 2.18 has arrived, here is perhaps the first published score typeset with it:
http://imslp.org/wiki/8_Solos,_Op.1_%28Stanley,_John%29#IMSLP309222 I have had to update Denemo to use the new \bar syntax, but otherwise everything went smoothly. Congratulations on the new release. Richard On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 17:50 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Some of you might have seen this on the lilypond-announce list, but I > repeat it here since not everybody may read the announce list. The big > announcement to all the non-LilyPond lists will happen in a few days if > we don't get major complaints. > > Here it goes: > > We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0 - the new > stable release. LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to > producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the > aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. > > Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might be > most visible: > > * Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather than > a rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces the occurrence of > unsightly large gaps. > * Sets and overrides can now use a simpler syntax > * Triplets with a given group length can now be written using a more > user-friendly syntax > > A full list of noteworthy new features is given in: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html > > Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose > financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to focus > exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle. > > LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by > > Main Developers: > Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin, > Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, John > Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan > Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, Mike > Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave, Janek > Warchol > > Core Contributors: > Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl, James > Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith OHara, Benko > Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer, Adam Spiers, > Heikki Tauriainen > > Documentation Writers: > Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James Lowe, > Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker, Martin > Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini > > Bug Squad: > Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer > > Support Team: > Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan, Urs > Liska, Ralph Palmer > > Translators: > Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric, > Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada > and numerous other contributors. > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
