Frescobaldi Changelog

What's new in Frescobaldi 2.18

Mar 9, 2015
  • Frescobaldi 2.18, with Python3 support and many new features, improvements, bugfixes and updated translations.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.15 (Mar 12, 2014)

  • Translations:
  • updated: nl, fr
  • New features:
  • in context menu: Jump to definition (wish #123)
  • in View menu: view file or definition at cursor, combines the old. File->Open File at Cursor action with the new Jump to definition action
  • new toolbar buttons to browse back after a jump to definition
  • Improvements:
  • better highlighting of figuremode
  • Bugfixes:
  • fix ValueError message when typing > or \partcombine
  • fix IndexError when typing 'variable ='

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.14 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Improved music rendering.
  • The music position is now shown when the cursor is in music.
  • Other enhancements.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.13 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • Translations:
  • updated: nl, fr
  • New features:
  • A new option LilyPond->Auto-engrave, that runs the engraver in preview mode
  • everytime the document changes
  • An option to hide log display for automatically started engraving jobs
  • Real-time Midi capturing
  • Basic MusicXML export (this was also already added in Frescobaldi 2.0.12)
  • The "master" variable is back, allbeit in a slightly different implementation: the redirected filename is not directly given to a LilyPond process running on behalf of the current document, but the other document is loaded (if it wasn't already) and LilyPond is run on that document.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix UnboundLocalError in ly.docinfo e.g. when showing the Tools->Pitch-> Language menu
  • Fix issue 332: Cursor didn't move on undo/redo
  • Fix issue 315: chords: \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly"

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.12 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Some improvements, bug fixes and a new SVG view.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.11 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • Many new functions, improvements, bug fixes (especially for Mac OS X users).

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.10 (May 13, 2013)

  • This release adds a new document outline tool (Tools->Outline) showing the structure of LilyPond documents
  • Translations have been updated and bugs have been fixed.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.9 (Mar 23, 2013)

  • This version implements many wishes (such as File->Reload, autodetection of files modified by other applications, the use of CSS when exporting syntax-highlighted HTML), new features and bug fixes.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.8 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • This release adds bug fixes, small improvements and one new feature: Open file at cursor (c-a-O), implementing wish #84

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.4 (Mar 7, 2012)

  • 2.0.4 fixes some bugs, adds a View->Line Numbers command, automatic completion in the snippet editor and some more features and bugfuxes.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.3 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • Correct spacing alist names in LilyPond 2.14 in blank paper tool
  • Fixed misinterpreting crescenco (\

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.1 (Jan 10, 2012)

  • Some bugs were fixed, mostly related to the handling of filenames with accented letters under MS Windows.
  • A fully self-contained Windows installer has been created, so that installing Python, PyQt4 etc. beforehand is no longer needed on Windows.

New in Frescobaldi 2.0.0 (Dec 26, 2011)

  • Updated translations: fr, nl, es, it, cs
  • Bug fixes:
  • when changing LilyPond instance that was default, keep it as default
  • New features:
  • new dialog and snippet to set the fonts for a LilyPond document
  • the tabs can be hidden and shown via the mainwindow context menu
  • autocomplete on #'font-name, with font preview
  • Improvements:
  • Shift-F1 (What's This) now works in dialogs
  • the tab bar can be hidden via the main window context menu

New in Frescobaldi 1.9.3 (Dec 1, 2011)

  • In this beta release, many bugs were fixed, small improvements were made, and translations were updated.

New in Frescobaldi 1.9.2 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Frescobaldi 2.0 is a rewrite from scratch. Not depending on the KDE4 libraries anymore, but just using Python and PyQt4, it is designed to run on all major operating systems. The python-poppler-qt4 binding to Poppler is needed for PDF preview, and PortMidi for MIDI playback.

New in Frescobaldi 1.2.0 (Dec 27, 2010)

  • built-in MIDI player using KMid
  • keyboard shortcuts for all insertable items
  • more panels in the Quick Insert Panel
  • easily install and use multiple LilyPond versions at the same time
  • a nice print dialog when printing music, etc.

New in Frescobaldi 1.1.8 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • All pitch name related functions (detection and translation) support the new \language LilyPond command (as of LilyPond 2.13.38).
  • Installation: An option has been added to suppress checking presence and versions of required python modules.
  • Translations:
  • Dutch updated by Wilbert Berendsen
  • Turkish updated by Server Acim
  • Czech updated by Pavel Fric
  • German updated by Georg Hennig
  • French updated by Valentin Villenave

New in Frescobaldi 1.1.6 (Sep 10, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New built-in MIDI player using the KMidPart of KMid 2.4.0 or higher
  • Notification popup when a long build finishes while Frescobaldi is hidden
  • Quick Insert: new panels for dynamics, bar lines, spanners, arpeggios, etc
  • LilyPond version to use configurable per session
  • Bugfixes and improvements:
  • Fix error message on Cut&Assign, introduced in 1.1.3
  • Expand dialog: Don't insert expansion when closed with ESC
  • Handle keyboard interrupt (SIGINT) nicely, don't show the bug dialog
  • Fix session --start commandline option
  • Blank staff paper: improved bar line distances with recent LilyPond versions
  • Installation:
  • Install Frescobaldi icon as SVG, not SVGZ
  • make uninstall now possible

New in Frescobaldi 1.0.3 (Aug 17, 2010)

  • Bugfixes:
  • fix flicker on startup
  • fix losing paths of hyphenation dictionaries on recent PyQt4 versions
  • work-around crash on smart Point&Click introduced in KDE 4.5
  • Improvements:
  • Repeat last expression: don't append space
  • Installation: LilyPond and gettext are not needed anymore when installing from tarball. (Prebuilt icons and translations are the prebuilt directory.)
  • Translations:
  • French updated by Valentin Villenave

New in Frescobaldi 1.1.5 (Aug 17, 2010)

  • Bugfixes and improvements:
  • Work-around a crash introduced in KDE 4.5 when using the --smart option to set the cursor position.
  • Fix Python error message when adding a new LilyPond version with the "Set as default" option checked.
  • Translations:
  • Czech updated by Pavel Fric
  • Polish updated by Piotr Komorowski
  • French updated by Ryan Kavanagh
  • Turkish updated by Server Acim

New in Frescobaldi 1.1.4 (Jul 28, 2010)

  • Fix Point and Click when running from 'run' script

New in Frescobaldi 1.1.3 (Jul 26, 2010)

  • General:
  • Tabs can be reordered (can be turned off)
  • Tabs don't get automatic shortcuts, they sometimes conflict with ours
  • the right tool dock has been made slightly larger by default
  • New: Session Management, in two ways:
  • Basic session management: if you log out with Frescobaldi running and then back in, Frescobaldi will reopen the documents that were open at logout.
  • Advanced named session support. A session defines a list of open documents, and optionally a base directory. More features will be added later to be able to use this as a light-weight project tool.
  • Context sensitive LilyPond help:
  • added support for internals reference: contexts, grobs and engravers
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix crash when editing toolbars
  • Installation:
  • A 'run' script has been added to run Frescobaldi from the tarball (or even SVN) without installing.
  • Using CMake out-of-source is now easier: icons and translations are not rebuilt anymore so the Frescobaldi install procedure does not need LilyPond and 'convert' (from ImageMagick) anymore. The icons and translations are in the prebuilt/ directory. Simply removing this directory restores the old behaviour (useful when you want to develop Frescobaldi from a release tarball, although a fresh SVN checkout is recommended in that case).
  • Translations:
  • Dutch updated by Wilbert Berendsen
  • Turkish updated by Server Acim

New in Frescobaldi 1.1.2 (Jul 8, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Segno bar line added (available in LilyPond 2.13.19 and higher)
  • It is now possible to configure the path that is used to find files that are included via the LilyPond \include command.
  • New 'Close other' action to close all documents except the current
  • Print and View icons in the toolbar to print music and open PDF and MIDI files in their external helper applications
  • Printing:
  • Printing generated PDF files now uses a print dialog, instead of just sending the PDF to the 'lpr' command.
  • Run LilyPond:
  • warn if the document contains a conflicting point and click setting
  • General:
  • print and email actions have moved to the File menu
  • close button on document tabs (can be turned off in Settings->Editor Comp.)
  • warnings and notifications have a "dont ask again" checkbox, and can be turned back on in the settings
  • progress indicator saves the build time in document metainfo
  • Autocompletion:
  • only popup completions from the expansion manager on blank lines
  • Settings dialog:
  • the settings have been organized in more logical groups
  • Installation:
  • building the icons from SVN or out-of-source requires LilyPond >= 2.13.19
  • Translations:
  • Dutch updated by Wilbert Berendsen
  • French updated by Valentin Villenave
  • Italian updated by Gianluca D'Orazio

New in Frescobaldi 1.0.2 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • Make Frescobaldi working with SIP 4.10 and KDE 4.4

New in Frescobaldi 1.0.1 (Jan 17, 2010)

  • Translations:
  • New Galician translation by Manuel A. Vázquez
  • Bugfixes:
  • Rumor: Make config dialog more robust if no MIDI outputs available
  • Score Wizard: Fix disappearing instrumentName if this is a markup object and
  • the same one as shortInstrumentName
  • Stability improvements
  • Some corrections in the default expansions of the Expansion Manager

New in Frescobaldi 1.0.0 (Dec 27, 2009)

  • Editor:
  • Right-click menu action on include command now opens the named file from
  • the LilyPond data directory if that exists and there is no local file with
  • that name.
  • Repeat last expression (Ctrl+;):
  • Doesn't repeat normal rests and skips, but rather the chord preceding it
  • Keeps the est when repeating a pitched rest (e.g. c est)
  • Only removes the octave from the repeated pitch (or from the first pitch
  • of the repeated chord) inside elative music expressions
  • Blank staff paper tool:
  • option to remove small "FRESCOBALDI.ORG" tagline at bottom
  • Score Wizard:
  • Fix lyrics not added if there is only one staff (reported by M. Moles)
  • Quick Insert Panel:
  • If cursor is inside a chord, note or rest, the cursor is positioned right
  • after the chord, note or rest before the articulation is inserted (if there
  • is no selection, in which case the articulation is inserted after all
  • chords, notes or rests). So now you can click a note in the PDF and directly
  • click a button to add an articulation or ornament etc. without repositioning
  • the cursor manually.
  • PDF preview:
  • Action in contextmenu to reload PDF document
  • General:
  • Fix crash on moving tools around
  • Fix crash on exit on some systems with multiple updated documents open
  • Work around crash on logging out from the built-in terminal and then hiding
  • and re-showing it, that occurs due to a bug in SIP 4.9.1
  • ESC key now closes PDF-preview dialogs properly
  • ESC key does not take focus away from editor window if PDF visible
  • Main window is activated when clicking on notes in detached PDF viewer
  • Fix interaction with SIP 4.9.3 (some settings were not saved, like paths)
  • Fix order of cautionary accidentals and octave marks in pitches (affects
  • transpose and relative/absolute conversion functions)
  • Fix attribute error on file dialogs in KDE 4.1 (but KDE 4.2 is recommended)
  • Fix document name not shown in tab bar if opening non-existing file
  • Improved hyphenation dictionaries search, also some explanation in docs
  • Installation:
  • CMake now does not require a compiler to be present anymore
  • Translations:
  • Dutch updated by Wilbert Berendsen
  • Spanish updated by Francisco Vila
  • Turkish updated by S. Acim
  • Italian updated by Gianluca D'Orazio
  • French updated by Ryan Kavanagh
  • Czech updated by Pavel Fric
  • Polish updated by Piotr Komorowski
  • German updated by Georg Hennig

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.17 (Nov 29, 2009)

  • Expansion Dialog:
  • It is now possible to assign keyboard shortcuts to snippets in the dialog
  • Improved syntax coloring in snippet entry
  • Autocompletion:
  • If the autocompleter does not find any suitable completions, matching
  • expansions from the Expansion dialog are shown
  • Score Wizard:
  • Harp, Guitar and Jazz Guitar: allow multiple voices per staff
  • Choir: checkbox for automatic piano reduction
  • General bugfixes and improvements:
  • When quitting, the last seen documents, starting with the current, are
  • closed first. This way, if the user cancels the quit, the current document
  • (if modified) remains the same.
  • Files can be opened by dropping them on the Frescobaldi window
  • Fix crash when swichting to a document opened using the Open File dialog
  • when multiple files were opened at the same time
  • All pitch manipulation functions better detect the end of unbracketed markup
  • expressions like: g g g-markup sharp g g g. Frescobaldo now knows the
  • number of arguments each markup command has and will not mistake the g after
  • sharp for a markup argument.
  • Installation:
  • building and installing the User Guide has been improved. If meinproc4 or
  • the XSL stylesheets can't be found, only a warning is printed and the cache
  • file (index.cache.bz2) is not pre-generated, but the install will continue.
  • (If there is no cache file, KHelpcenter will generate one on a per-user
  • basis as soon as the User Guide is displayed for the first time.)
  • Translations:
  • Dutch updated by me
  • Spanish updated by Francisco Vila
  • Polish updated by Piotr Komorowski
  • Czech updated by Pavel Fric
  • French updated by Ryan Kavanagh

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.16 (Nov 16, 2009)

  • New command to transpose music
  • New commands for conversion between relative and absolute pitches
  • New: Alt+Shift+Up/Down selects text till next or previous blank line, and
  • Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up/Down moves the selected block to the next or previous blank line. This gives a very quick way to reorder fragments of LilyPond input.
  • A new tool to create empty staff paper
  • Improved support for quarter tones in all pitch-related functions
  • Translations:
  • French updated by Ryan Kavanagh
  • Spanish updated by Francisco Vila

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.15 (Oct 13, 2009)

  • New LilyPond documentation browser providing context-sensitive help
  • New shortcuts:
  • Repeat selected music, Ctrl+Shift+R: wraps the selection in a epeat volta 2 { music... } construct
  • Insert pair of braces, Ctrl+{: wraps the selection in braces, or inserts { newline newline } and places the cursor on the middle indented line.
  • New bar lines submenu to insert different types of bar lines
  • Expansion Manager:
  • Two cursormarks (|) can be used to select a range of text after expanding
  • New contextmenu command to add selected text to expansions
  • Autocompletion:
  • named colors are shown in the right color
  • some often used block commands like header now also insert the braces, and place the cursor between them.
  • names of variables (like composer in the header) automagically append ' = ' if the remainder of the line does not start with the '=' character.
  • New commands in the Log context menu to copy or save its contents.
  • LilyPond symbol icons are displayed white if the users color palette settings have light text on a dark background. The icons are automatically recolored if the user changes the color preferences while Frescobaldi is running.
  • The Save As... dialog now really opens in the default directory if the document has no filename yet.
  • Tools can be shown/hidden with configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Score Wizard: parts can be reordered by dragging with the mouse
  • Documentation updates
  • Translations:
  • Turkish updated by S. Acim
  • Russian updated by Artem Zolochevskiy
  • Polish updated by Piotr Komorowski
  • Dutch updated by Wilbert Berendsen

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.14 (Sep 13, 2009)

  • Log shows elapsed time after successful LilyPond run
  • Option to run LilyPond with --verbose output
  • Fix Rumor input when key signature is set to anything else than "Auto"
  • Misc other bugfixes
  • Translations:
  • Czech updated by Pavel Fric
  • Italian updated by Gianluca D'Orazio

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.13 (Aug 10, 2009)

  • Make Frescobaldi working again in KDE 4.3 due to changes in KDE and PyQt-4.5
  • Translations:
  • Turkish updated by S. Acim
  • Russian updated by S. Poltavski

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.12 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • It is now possible to run LilyPond on remote documents and documents that have not been saved yet. In such cases Frescobaldi internally saves the LilyPond file to a local temporary directory. Point and click also works on remote or unnamed documents. This makes it easy to paste something from an email and run
  • LilyPond immediately, without bothering to save it first under a suitable file name. The local cache is deleted when the document is closed or saved to a directory on the local file system.
  • It is now possible to configure external applications for PDF and MIDI files.
  • These will then be used instead of the KDE default configured applications.
  • New align action (LilyPond->Source Document->Indent) that properly indents a document or selection of lines. This indenter is a bit more robust than the one built into KatePart. The Score Wizard and Expand Manager now also use the
  • users indentation settings, instead of always using two spaces indent.
  • New shortcuts to insert nice typographical quotes: Ctrl+' for single and
  • Ctrl+" for double quotes. Left and right quotes are automatically determined.
  • If text is selected, the selected text is put between quotes.
  • Repeat last note/chord: only keep articulations and ties.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Smart Point and Click remains working if pitches are translated
  • Text editor keeps keyboard focus again when clicked in PDF preview
  • Rumor plugin more stable in keyboard mode and stops cleanly if running on Frescobaldi exit
  • Translations:
  • French updated by David Bouriaud (thanks!)
  • Dutch updated by self

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.11 (Jun 16, 2009)

  • Stability improvements

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.10 (Jun 10, 2009)

  • Point and click: Shift-click in the PDF preview now selects music from current cursor position to new cursor position. So you can select a music fragment by clicking on the first note and then shift-clicking on the last note.
  • Editor:
  • Context sensitive context (right-click) menu with, besides the usual cut, copy and paste, commands to open include file, hyphenate lyrics and Cut & Assign text (if selected)
  • The Cut & Assign command (Ctrl+Shift+C) now obeys inputmodes. If you e.g. cut out some lyrics, the fragment will automatically be wrapped in a lyricmode { } block.
  • Autocompletion for accidental styles
  • User Interface:
  • new document tab bar for easy navigation between open files, can be hidden
  • when running LilyPond and the option 'Save document when LilyPond is run' is enabled, the Save As dialog is displayed when the document has no filename yet.
  • Translations:
  • German translation updated by Georg Hennig (thanks!)

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.9 (May 25, 2009)

  • Bugfixes:
  • spurious crashes seem to have been gone (by using thread locks on katepart's SmartInterface)
  • Editing:
  • Alt-Up and Alt-Down now jump to the first line of a blank block instead of just the next or previous blank line.
  • Quick Insert Panel:
  • ornaments use the default window text color
  • Repeat last expression:
  • remove octave mark from first pitch
  • remove barcheck pipe symbols
  • Score Wizard:
  • Small fixes to fretted instruments
  • Predefined Guitar Fret option for Chord Names (also in Lead Sheet)

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.8 (Mar 20, 2009)

  • Point and click has become smart: URLs point to the correct position even if the document is changed without re-running LilyPond.
  • Point and click now works well again with tabs in KDE 4.2.
  • A progress bar has been added, as well as a new Polish translation.
  • Some bugs were fixed.

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.7 (Mar 3, 2009)

  • New comprehensive User Guide in the help menu (F1 key)
  • Context sensitive Help buttons in most dialogs
  • New Czech translation by Pavel Fric, many thanks!
  • Updated translations: ru, nl
  • Settings: it is now possible to choose which LilyPond version number to
  • use by default for new documents: the version of the installed LilyPond,
  • the version of the last conversion rule of convert-ly, or a custom version.
  • PDF preview: context menu has a new action to configure Okular
  • Score Wizard: if there is more than one part, make separate assignments for
  • the parts. This simplifies the generated score { } section and makes it
  • easier to create additional score sections for printing separate parts.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Apply/paste rhythm: don't lose parts of text and don't hang if no rhythm
  • Find translations when installed to non-standard directory
  • Avoid double entries in score wizard instrument name language combobox

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.6 (Feb 21, 2009)

  • New context sensitive autocompletion feature, supporting:
  • general lilypond commands and markup commands (inside markup)
  • contexts and layout objects and their properties
  • engravers, musicglyph names and midi instrument names
  • most used variable names in header, paper, layout, etc.
  • some often used scheme function names

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.5 (Feb 12, 2009)

  • Translations updated: fr, it, nl
  • Frescobaldi now can be installed to non-standard install directories
  • New command to change the pitch names in a LilyPond document to another
  • language
  • In Edit-menu
  • New command to cut a piece of text and assign it to a variable
  • New shortcut to repeat the last entered music expression
  • New shortcut to expand a short string to user-definable pieces of LilyPond
  • input. When no shortcut is typed a dialog is opened where shortcuts can
  • be chosen and edited.
  • New shortcuts (Alt+Up and Alt+Down) to jump between blank lines, c.q.
  • insertion points

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.4 (Jan 31, 2009)

  • Translations updated: es, tr, it, nl
  • Auto-configures Okular in KDE 4.2 to enable point-and-click
  • New Fullscreen option
  • New option to disable the built-in PDF preview
  • A LogWidget bug fixed that garbled the text if the user clicked somewhere in the log while LilyPond was still running
  • Some Rumor bugs fixed

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.3 (Jan 22, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Score Wizard: new "Try" button that shows score example
  • New rhythm menu actions to copy and paste rhythms
  • New option to set default directory for documents
  • New option to save state (bookmarks, cursor position, etc.) for documents
  • New options to edit keyboard shortcuts and toolbars
  • Default keyboard shortcuts have been added for most used actions
  • Save Dialog now also has LilyPond filetype filter and default extension
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix editor part not saving and loading settings
  • Score Wizard: fix partial measure, tabstaff, basso continuo and drumstaff
  • Installation:
  • Install script does not use pykdeconfig anymore, just tests PyKDE4, etc.
  • Release tarballs now have prebuilt icons and translations

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.2 (Jan 7, 2009)

  • New:
  • "Run LilyPond" icon (hand drawn in Inkscape, based on the LilyPond XPM)
  • Open Current Folder action
  • Actions to view or print PDF, play MIDI or email documents
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix shift-up and shift-down selection in editor while PDF is visible.
  • Don't say LilyPond crashes if user terminates the process
  • End startup notification if running instance found.

New in Frescobaldi 0.7.1 (Jan 2, 2009)

  • New Settings dialog
  • Show Path in window title option
  • Tools save their settings
  • Tool Views submenu in Settings menu
  • Fix handling of filenames containing non-ascii characters
  • Misc other fixes and improvements