[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] NoteEdit 2.8.1 released

Hi, The NoteEdit team is happy to announce the long awaited new release of the score editor NoteEdit. You can directly fetch the sources from here: http://download.berlios.de/noteedit/noteedit-2.8.1.tar.gz Please note: This is the last major release on NoteEdit. Since some month the core team concentrates it's development on the NoteEdit successor called Canorus. More information can be found here: http://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The new version 2.8.1 contains the following major changes since the last release: - New direct printing and print preview support using different backends: - Implemented custom print dialog. - New settings in Configure dialog for printing. - Custom preview application (eg. kpdf, gpdf, xpdf, gv). - Custom typesetting application (LilyPond, ABC, PMX/MusiXTeX). - Enhanced UI: - mouse wheel behaviour improvements (zoom in/out, quick scroll, vertical scroll), - added keyboard shortcuts (select n-th voice directly, start/stop playback, insert special barline, goto measure), - few dialog improvements (insert clef or barline, page layout), - new dialog: Insert special barline. - remember the last position of action (useful when deleting the whole block of the score), - rewritten scroll behaviour (especially when the selected element is out-of-scope), - red border when Edit mode is active. - added vertical line which connects all staves - MusicXML improvements: - import arbitrary text. - export arbitrary text. - export all strings in UTF-8 encoding. - LilyPond export filter improvements: - arranger is now exported. - document page size is exported. - rit./accel. signs are printed in italic. - export all strings in UTF-8 encoding, if Lily >2.6 is found. - official Lilypond font sizes are now supported - gcc4 complete compiler support. Many warning fixes and internal cleanups. - Many documentation additions and fixes. - New translations and translation updates More details (including bug fixes and detailed changes) can be found in the NEWS file and the ChangeLog file of the archive. Best regards, Reinhard -- Software-Engineer, Developer of User Interfaces Project: Canorus - the next generation music score editor - http://canorus.berlios.de GnuPG Public Key available on request