Dear fellow hackers and LilyPond addicts,
LilyPond 1.2 is imminent, and I'd like to explain what is going to
happen when I do the release. I'll go on a holiday shortly after the
release, so I hope you are all prepared to answer questions on the
mailing lists. I won't be there to fix stuff, but in the event of
catastrophes, try bugging Mats (I am going to Stockholm).
I am just putting up 1.1.62, and after that release there will be no
new features before 1.2. I moved most of the 1.2 TODO items to the
"after 1.2" section. My plan is to spend the next week fixing the
last remaining bugs; things that I (and, hopefully Jan too) do plan to
look at are:
* Auto staff switching
* Remaining spacing bugs
* Slurs on grace notes (perhaps also dynamics)
* Vertical positioning of dynamics, dynamics font issues.
* "holes" in the postscript font.
I think these are the most serious issues that still aren't right.
But, as always, I don't promise anything.
After the bugfixing I'll spend a week updating the documentation,
while the C++ part of LilyPond should remain stabilized. I hope that
this will prevent any embarassing "Brown Paper Bag" bugs. I am
planning to do the final release on July, 30 (Friday)-- which would
mean that I put 1.2 on cs.uu.nl and do a posting in gnu.announce and
comp.os.linux.announce.
I hope that someone else will take care of
* building packages for W32, RH and Debian
* uploading to
- metalab.unc.edu
- ftp.gnu.org
- ftp.dante.de
* announcements to relevant mailing lists (eg, ABC, musixtex, mup,
what-have-you)
Lastly, I would welcome comments on my announcement for 1.2. It
follows here.
-*- text -*-
[DRAFT]
Keywords: midi notation music typesetting gnu font engraving
Subject: GNU LilyPond 1.2 released - The Music Typesetter
GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
WHAT IS LilyPond?
LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.
LilyPond produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description
file as input.
BROWSE
Documentation and examples can be found on
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
DOWNLOAD
Sources for this project are on
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ (Europe)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
Prepackaged i386 and PPC packages for both Debian and RedHat GNU are
also available.
WHAT'S NEW?
* Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller
memory footprint and more flexible code.
* Direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as GUILE script.
* convertors for ABC and MUP formats.
* Font: now available as scaleable PostScript. New glyphs: time
signature, more note heads.
* Enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested)
repeats, automatic staff switching, chordnames, automatic Lyrics
durations.
* Grace notes, volta brackets, better spacing, multiple styles for
note heads and time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders,
cross staff beaming and slurring.
* --safe option for the paranoid
* More elegant spacing. Text is spaced exactly.
* lots of bugfixes
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
