LilyPond — Changes ¶

Major changes in LilyPond ¶

None so far.

New for musical notation ¶

New for specialist notation ¶

• The chord name input x:1/x gets now rendered as ‘N.C./x’.

  \chords { d:1/d }
  

  

• White mensural ligatures now support final ascending longae facing backwards, obey tweaks in more cases, and handle errors more gracefully.

  \score {
    \new PetrucciStaff {
      \clef "petrucci-c4"
      \[ g\breve f \tweak ligature-pes ##t c'\longa \]
    }
  }
  

  

• Stanza numbers in lyrics are now created with a dedicated \stanza ... command. This replaces the former syntax \set stanza = ....

  \relative {
    c'4 c g' g
    a a g2
  }
  \addlyrics {
    \stanza "1."
    Twin -- kle, twin -- kle, lit -- tle star
  }
  \addlyrics {
    \stanza "2."
    When the bla -- zing sun is gone
  }
  

  

• Stanza numbers in lyrics can now be auto-repeated at the beginning of each line. To activate this feature, set the stanzaReminders property to #t:

  \new Voice \relative {
    \key e \minor
    b'4 b a g
    fis2 e \break
    b'4 cis d b
    e2 dis \break
    e4 g fis fis
    e1
  }
  \addlyrics {
    \stanza "1."
    \set stanzaReminders = ##t
    Je -- su, mei -- ne Freu -- de,
    mei -- nes Her -- zens Wei -- de,
    \set stanzaReminderText = "(1st)"
    Je -- su, mei -- ne Zier.
  }
  \addlyrics {
    \stanza "2."
    Un -- ter dei -- nem Schir -- men
    bin ich vor den Stür -- men
    \set stanzaReminders = ##t
    \set stanzaReminderText = #make-tiny-markup
    al -- ler Fein -- de frei.
  }
  

  

• An alternative to using \pes and \flexa (which internally do the same) is the command \~. This isn’t new (being introduced in 2003); however, it stayed undocumented and was broken for some time.

  \new VaticanaScore {
    \new VaticanaVoice \relative {
      \[ a \pes b \flexa g \]
    }
  }
  

  

  \new VaticanaScore {
    \new VaticanaVoice \relative {
      \[ a \~ b \~ g \]
    }
  }
  

  

Miscellaneous improvements ¶

• The new commands \startGradualTempoChange and \stopGradualTempoChange describe a temporary departure from the prevailing tempo. Currently, these affect only MIDI output.
• These functions, which have been deprecated since version 2.13.19, have been removed: \deprecatedcresc, \deprecatedendcresc, \deprecateddim, and \deprecatedenddim.
• The glyph-name property of a NoteHead grob now contains a fully qualified glyph name, as documented. It is no longer necessary to replace the stencil just to draw a different note head glyph; setting this property suffices.

  {
    c'4
    \once\override NoteHead.glyph-name = "noteheads.s2triangle"
    c'4
  }
  

  

  As a side effect, the Scheme function note-head::calc-glyph-name is not needed anymore and will be removed after a deprecation cycle. Depending on the intended use case, its use may be replaced either by accessing the glyph-name property of a specific NoteHead grob, or by calling select-head-glyph for a specific notehead style and duration-log.

For older news, go to https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/changes/, or go back to the Documentation index.