Re: LilyPond 2.3.7 is out

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 19 July 2004 01.44, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> LilyPond 2.3.7 is available.
>
> I have been rather disappointed with the user response on the 2.3
> series release. In fact, one of our regular contributor was recently
> seen recommending 2.2 over 2.3. This is, of course, heresy.  Real
> musicians run their daily update from unstable CVS.  For those that
> need to finish actual work, we have the weekly 2.3.x release.

(i'm feeling shame)

> To spur the adoption of LilyPond 2.3, I have decided to give 2.3 yet
> another bonus-point over 2.2. The latest development release sports
> the long-awaited rewrite of the slur code.
>
> Slurs will now avoid collisions with fingerings, accents, accidentals.
> The positioning is better for heavily tilted slurs. In complex
> situations, a better compromise between conflicting requirements is
> taken. Of course, it produces perfectly shaped slurs, so its not a
> great loss that old Slur tweaking code (eg. #'attachment tuning) has no
> effect whatsoever.

Wow, that's just great! I have now moved back slur-bugs from the future 
branch. 2 of 4 bugs there don't show up, this may or may not be because they 
are fixed.

At least slur-slur and slur-triplet number collisions remain.

Erik