Miscellaneous improvements ¶

• Producing SVG output with the legacy -dbackend=svg backend is now much faster for large scores, due to caching extracted glyphs from the SVG font file.
• The new \verboseBarNumbers command simplifies documentation examples where bar numbers are a central concern. It might also be useful for debugging.
• 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/v2.26/Documentation/changes/, or go back to the Documentation index.