Due to personal circumstances, Han-Wen was able to do a lot more on LilyPond during the past months. A testament to that is the quick release of version 2.0, less than two months after 1.8. We have taken the opportunity to make a few radical changes to the syntax: note attributes, like articulation, dynamics and fingerings are now post-fix exclusively. This makes entering scores easier: you never have to think about the order of the attributes. With version 2.0, we have a new and improved platform for working on notation and typography features for coming versions,
Due to other personal circumstances, Jan was not able to do more than packaging for Cygwin. The good news is that we now have a nearly fool-proof installation for Windows. He will be back for serious hacking in 2.1.
Han-Wen and Jan
Utrecht/Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2003.
This page is for LilyPond-2.0.1 (stable-branch).