[ANN] NoteEdit 2.8.1 released

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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

P.S.: LAA writing does not work for me, though I'm subscribed there with
this account. Don't understand why, tried twice, never got any answer
except the usual waits for moderator approval... (First try on Saturday
evening, next on Monday evening).
-- 
Software-Engineer, Developer of User Interfaces
Project: Canorus - the next generation music score editor -
http://canorus.berlios.de
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