LilyPond 2.18.0 released

From: David Kastrup Subject: LilyPond 2.18.0 released Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:50:09 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

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. -- David Kastrup

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