Re: Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12)

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> >> I don't.  Yes, fret diagrams are very important to guitar players.
> >> But dodecaphonic accidentals are very important to twelve-tone
> >> composers.  Harp pedals are very important to harpists.  Arbitrary
> >> microtonal accidentals are very important to Turkish musicians, as
> >> well as a vast number of people writing academic compositions.
> >>
> >> At least a third of the items in the NEWS are "very important" to
> >> one particular group of musicians; I really think that we should
> >> only list items that are "very important" to *everybody* in the
> >> release notes.
>
> Maybe you could have a short list as a third item,
>
> - Many features, among others transposable fret diagrams, microtonal
> accidentals, .. , and many more. For a complete overview, surf to ...

Yes, that's what I like most. Listing just one or two new features makes the 
release look rather unimpressive...
BTW, maybe we should also mention the much improved musicxml2ly import (from 
Finale, Sibelius, etc.). Of course, I'm a little biased in that regard, 
though ;-)

Cheers,
Reinhold

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