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* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools. * Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi. * Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc. - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in: - Improved speed (undone for now, by .73 + .74), with comparable memory footprint - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push' mechanism. - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes. * New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS. * Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes * Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi * MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes * Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos, * Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment, and stanza numbering. * Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/`a2 indications as appropriate. * Chordnames are now configurable in every respect * Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms. * Many bugfixes. * Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example. * Self-documenting: generated internal documentation. * AsciiScript: ASCII-art output * Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
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