Han-Wen Nienhuys Monday, September 22, 2008 3:50 PM
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Valentin Villenave
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've read plenty of release announcements, but my reaction is
different -- marketing make feel greasy and icky. I had five
years of training to be as precise as possible in my analytic
philosophy degree; I hate empty phrases like "50 new features".
Oh, come on. I hate marketing as much as you do, but we are not
selling anything to people who don't need it. We've had this debate
many times, and you know how important I think it is to raise people's
enthusiasm in such projects.
I think the release notes should both be enthusiastic, but also as
short and factual as possible. In this draft, I'd fold
- Our online documentation is now generated by a new system that
makes it simpler to browse... and much better-looking. It has never
been easier to get started with 'Pond!
into the doc item, and the doc item could be shorter.
- This release contains vastly improved collision detection. Many
graphical score objects will avoid overwriting each other, leading
to far fewer manual tweaks.
I think this is a good point, but it should be more specific: how is
it improved, what collisions are prevented?
as a matter of style, good things come in threes, so I'd add one other
highlight. I'd also mention the page breaking improvements.
How does the attached version look?
Trevor
*LilyPond version 2.12 available -- 12 year anniversary release*
http://lilypond.org
We are proud to announce the release of GNU/LilyPond 2.12 "Rune".
Our joy is tinged with sadness, as long-time LilyPond contributor
and friend Rune Zedeler passed away on the 2nd of July, 2008. This
release is dedicated to him.
Rune was a computer programmer, a musician and a valued contributor
to LilyPond. He had been enthusiastically involved in the project
for the past six years, and he will be sorely missed in our community.
*Major updates*
- Collision detection has been vastly improved. Outside-staff objects
now avoid each other automatically, so far fewer manual tweaks are
required to correct layout problems.
- Page-breaking has been improved with a new function designed to help
with the production of books with many pages or lots of text, and the
manual control of page breaks is now possible at the top level.
- The documentation itself has been almost entirely rewritten in a
year-long "Grand Documentation Project", and the online documentation
is both much better-looking and far easier to browse. Translation
teams have also been working hard everywhere in the world: the program
is now available in 15 languages, and the documentation is partially
available in French, Spanish and German. It has never been easier to
get started with 'Pond!
- There is more: a huge number of bugs have been fixed, and countless
exciting new features have been implemented. Since we can't decide
which ones you'll enjoy the most, have a look at the full list at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html and
let us know!
[include THANKS here]
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