Re: Draft of 2.18 release news (issue 45070043)

[dak]

Reviewers: J_lowe,

Message:
On 2013/12/22 23:03:46, J_lowe wrote:
> Fails make need to escape some braces here and there in the @examples
- some
> nits.

Embarrassing.  I did not bother all too much about seeing Patchy
complain since I was not expecting a patch to the stable branch to apply
at all.


https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/diff/1/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
> File Documentation/web/news-front.itexi (right):


https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/diff/1/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi#newcode26
> Documentation/web/news-front.itexi:26: the occurence of unsightly
large gaps.
> 'occurrence'

Fixed.


https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/diff/1/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi#newcode26
> Documentation/web/news-front.itexi:26: the occurence of unsightly
large gaps.
> I like my adjectives comma-separated, but hey! (you say potato etc.).

> '...of unsightly, large gaps.'

I was using unsightly as an adverb on "large" rather than as an
adjective, so no.  It's like "dangerously close hornets".


https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/diff/1/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi#newcode41
> Documentation/web/news-front.itexi:41: \tuplet 3/2 4 { c8 c c  c c c }
> I  think these braces need escaping @{ @}


https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/diff/1/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi#newcode45
> Documentation/web/news-front.itexi:45: \times 2/3 { c8 c c } \times
2/3 { c8 c c
> }
> Ditto


https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/diff/1/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi#newcode70
> Documentation/web/news-front.itexi:70: Sawada, and Zefram.
> If it matters, Zefram's name is Andrew Main.

I think that in the final version I'll be taking the content from the
updated authors.itexi instead, so it should not matter.



Description:
Draft of 2.18 release news

The contributor list needs to be completed.

Please review this at https://codereview.appspot.com/45070043/

Affected files (+73, -10 lines):
  M Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
  M Documentation/web/news.itexi


Index: Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
diff --git a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi  
b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
index  
0d8b05774d703d4ce3423f1c2f26944609fb7ff0..dab13f66ef7bf242b706bf43d700201ae2a0834d  
100644
--- a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
@@ -9,16 +9,65 @@
 @c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2

 @newsItem
address@hidden LilyPond 2.17.97 released!  @emph{December 8, 2013}
-
-We are excited to announce the release of address@hidden as
-a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable address@hidden   
The
-developers believe this to be feature-complete, the
-documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
-overlooked.  For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
-latest version, see  
@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly,  
Updating files with convert-ly}.
-Please test this release and report back any problems, see
address@hidden://www.lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
address@hidden Lilypond 2.18.0 released!  @emph{December 28, 2013}
+
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
+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:
+
address@hidden
address@hidden
+Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
+than address@hidden bounding box.  This greatly reduces
+the occurence of unsightly large gaps.
+
address@hidden
+Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
address@hidden
+\override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
address@hidden example
+instead of the previous
address@hidden
+\override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
address@hidden example
+
address@hidden
+Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
address@hidden
+\tuplet 3/2 4 { c8 c c  c c c }
address@hidden example
+instead of
address@hidden
+\times 2/3 { c8 c c } \times 2/3 { c8 c c }
address@hidden example
address@hidden itemize
+
+A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
+
address@hidden
address@hidden://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
address@hidden example
+
+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.
+
address@hidden TODO: list more than just the committers
+LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by Adam Spiers, Aleksandr
+Andreev, Anders Pilegaard, Arnold Theresius, Benkő Pál, Colin
+Campbell, David Kastrup, David Nalesnik, Federico Bruni, Francisco
+Vila, Frédéric Bron, Graham Percival, Guy Stalnaker, Han-Wen
+Nienhuys, Heikki Tauriainen, Ian Hulin, James Lowe, Jan
+Nieuwenhuizen, Janek Warchoł, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Johannes
+Rohrer, John Mandereau, Julien Rioux, Keith OHara, Luca Rossetto
+Casel, Marc Hohl, Mark Polesky, Mike Solomon, Phil Holmes,
+Reinhold Kainhofer, Rodolfo Zitellini, Thomas Morley, Torsten
+Hämmerle, Trevor Daniels, Urs Liska, Werner Lemberg, Yoshiki
+Sawada, and Zefram.

 @newsEnd

Index: Documentation/web/news.itexi
diff --git a/Documentation/web/news.itexi b/Documentation/web/news.itexi
index  
c0a4e9f0d55fc7de637237502cf00753fbda64a9..ea3ba36ad975691f33e7bebb52c5b32199abf0d6  
100644
--- a/Documentation/web/news.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/web/news.itexi
@@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ NOTE:
 @end ignore

 @newsItem
address@hidden LilyPond 2.17.97 released!  @emph{December 8, 2013}
+
+We are excited to announce the release of address@hidden as
+a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable address@hidden   
The
+developers believe this to be feature-complete, the
+documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
+overlooked.  For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
+latest version, see  
@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly,  
Updating files with convert-ly}.
+Please test this release and report back any problems, see
address@hidden://www.lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
+
address@hidden
+
address@hidden
 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.96 released!  @emph{November 24, 2013}

 We are excited to announce the release of address@hidden as