ANN: Frescobaldi 1.0.0 released

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Hi all,

After exactly one year of development since the release of Frescobaldi 0.7 
(with that number because it followed LilyKDE 0.6.x) I'm very delighted to 
announce the release of Frescobaldi 1.0.0.

Download: http://lilykde.googlecode.com/files/frescobaldi-1.0.0.tar.gz

Frescobaldi is a dedicated LilyPond sheet music text editor, built on the KDE4 
platform. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi 
is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License. 

Among Frescobaldi's features are:
- built-in PDF previewer with advanced Point and Click support
- a Score Setup Wizard that helps you to quickly setup a LilyPond score,
  generating LilyPond input in a very human-like way
- syntax coloring that also signals some often made mistakes
- powerful functions to manipulate pitches: translate music from one pitch
  language to another, transpose music (both relative and absolute) and
  perform conversion between relative and absolute music expressions (all
  these functions also work on selected fragments of music)
- tools to change the rhythm of already entered music (extract, paste rhythm,
  apply a rhythm repetitively to entered pitches, double, halve or scale, etc)
- hyphenate lyrics using wordprocessor hyphenation dictionaries
- snippet manager to enter lilypond snippets using keystrokes or mnemonics
- context sensitive autocompletion
- music entry via MIDI using the Rumor program (Linux only)
- LilyPond documentation browser with context sensitive lookup
- User Guide with help buttons (F1) everywhere
- blank staff paper generator
- translated into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian,
  Spanish, Turkish and Polish

Most important changes since 0.7.17 are:
- stability improvements and bug fixes
- usability fixes:
  - articulations are automatically appended after a pitch,
    even if the cursor is at the beginning of it
  - repeat last note/chord does not remove octavemark when in absolute
    note entry mode
- updated translations
- installation: CMake does not require a compiler anymore

Sincere thanks go to all the translators and many users who reported bugs and 
suggestions.

Frescobaldi development will now continue in two branches: the 1.0 line[1] 
will primarily be in bugfix mode. New features and profound changes (such as 
porting to Python 3) will be done in trunk[2], which currently already runs 
quite well but requires Python 2.6 and very recent SIP and PyQt4 releases.

[1] http://lilykde.googlecode.com/svn/branches/frescobaldi/frescobaldi-1.0
[2] http://lilykde.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/frescobaldi

Enjoy and a happy new year!
Wilbert Berendsen

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Frescobaldi, LilyPond editor for KDE: http://www.frescobaldi.org/