March 27th, 2013· This version fixes many bugs.
February 7th, 2013· This version fixes some minor layout bugs and extends the %%voicescale command range.
December 8th, 2012· Several bugs were fixed.
· The option "hidden" was added in the %%dynamic, %%gchord, %%ornament, %%vocal, and %%volume commands.
November 23rd, 2012· Several layout bugs have been fixed.
November 6th, 2012· Several layout bugs and crashes were fixed.
September 26th, 2012· Fix bad accidentals when clef one octave higher or lower than normal.
· Add a letter to select a repeated measure in tune selection (asked by Hudson Flávio Meneses Lacerda).
· Fix bad music position in tune selection (%%break / %%clip) (reported by Hudson Flávio Meneses Lacerda).
· Fix lack of tune selection (%%break / %%clip) of the first measures (0 and 1) (reported by Hudson Flávio Meneses Lacerda).
· Remove extra vertical space between staves after a staff with no note (reported by Chuck Boody).
· Add "%%tune end" and authorize blank lines in %%tune sequences !! compatibility !! (asked by Hudson Flávio Meneses Lacerda).
· Change %¬ccancel to %Êncelkey !! compatibility !!.
· Accept time signatures as "M:5 ((2+3)/4)" and "M:5 (2/4+3/4)".
· Display the parenthesis of "M:7/8 (3+2+2)" (reported by Guido Gonzato).
August 22nd, 2012· Minor bugs were fixed.
June 14th, 2012· This version fixes a few layout bugs.
January 17th, 2012· Fix bad guitar chord display when ending with accidental and no pango
· (reported by Jean-Luc ZINS).
· Fix bad natural spacement on clef change.
· Fix too much right shift of second voices when first voice is dotted.
· Fix bad stem length in beams when notes shifted to avoid voice overlap.
· Fix bad horizontal offset of voices going from a staff to an other one.
· Handle the decorations of notes in invisible grace note chords.
· Fix bad SVG output when nested gsave/grestore and rotation.
· Fix the horizontal placement of the starting clefs.
· Fix bad error when music line continuation in a tuplet.
· Add 'stringwidth' in the PS to SVG interpreter.
· Fix lack of ties when many ones in chords.
· Fix bad errors when ties inside and outside chords
· (reported by Daniel Branning).
· Fix bad errors when more values after floating values in format parameters
· (reported by David Lacroix).
January 12th, 2012· This is the new "stable" release.
November 26th, 2011· This version fixes bugs and adds an option in "configure" not to use pango.
October 20th, 2011· Fixed bugs in transposition.
October 18th, 2011· This version introduces the new %%transpose command.
· Some bugs were also fixed.
August 30th, 2011· %%commands were tagged as obsolete, and new %%commands were added.
May 12th, 2011· Pseudo-decorations 'linebreak' and 'decosep' added (proof of concept - not documented).
· Error when escape sequences in guitar chord or annotations.
· Bad tempo since previous release.
· Remove the 'tex' sequences '\o', \O', '\cc' and '\cC'.
April 22nd, 2011· The "-S" command flag (secure mode) was added.
February 4th, 2011· Fixed minor bugs in Q.
December 28th, 2010· Fixed several bugs.
December 6th, 2010· Some bugs affecting page layout and PostScript generation were fixed.
September 21st, 2010· A small bug in the %%stave command was corrected.
August 6th, 2010· Don't forget the %%infoname at start of file.
· Crash on '%%infoname R' (reported by Chuck Boody).
· Crash when clef in V: and no note in the tune (reported by Reinier Maliepaard).
August 6th, 2010· Don't forget the %%infoname at start of file.
· Crash on '%%infoname R' (reported by Chuck Boody).
· Crash when clef in V: and no note in the tune (reported by Reinier Maliepaard).
· Bad tie direction when dotted.
June 23rd, 2010· Bad tune selection when < last_index > absent in "-e".
· Bad title when title trim.
· More horizontal space for flat accidental in texts.
· Change the directory separator for MAC systems.
· Fix a crash when unknown glyph with pango.
· Fix lyrics error in chinese.abc.
June 23rd, 2010· Bad tune selection when < last_index > absent in "-e".
· Bad title when title trim.
· Change the directory separator for MAC systems.
April 7th, 2010· Fix some security vulnerabilities (thanks to Tim Starling).
· Add %¾gin/EndDocument when inserting a EPS file (thanks to Reinier Maliepaard).
April 7th, 2010· Change the utf-8 font mechanism from CMAP to composite font (FontType 0).
· Fix some security vulnerabilities (thanks to Tim Starling).
· Add %¾gin/EndDocument when inserting a EPS file (thanks to Reinier Maliepaard).
· Fix bad guitar chord / annotation offset when non latin characters and pango.
· Have flats a bit higher in texts.
· Have more space between accidentals in key signatures.
March 2nd, 2010· Fix measure bar numbering when %%setbarnb and many voices.
· Fix measure bar numbering when M:none.
· Fix the output of user postscript sequences when many output files.
· Fix a crash when slur ending on a grace note at end of a secundary voice.
· Fix a crash when a tune ends with T:.
February 5th, 2010· Fix lyrics display when not enough or too many lyrics in a music line alone (the previous fix was not applied).
January 22nd, 2010· Remove the latin parameters.
· Do the accidentals in string ('201'.. and '#'.. in guitar chords) work again.
· Accept ABC files coded in latin1.
January 22nd, 2010· Add all whistle types in flute.fmt (thanks to Guido Gonzato).
October 7th, 2009· A few minor bugs, including a date bug under Windows, were fixed in this release.
May 25th, 2009· Bad duration of notes in nested tuplets.
· Bad clef vertical offset when should go to the 5th line with 'middle='.
· Bad horizontal offset of guitar chords in repeat measures.
· May have repeat measures / sequences on many following music lines.
· No legder line when shifted note of chord between lines.
· Fix bad horizontal offset of ledger lines when note/chord shift.
· Don't display the name/subname of voices with no notes in the staff.
April 16th, 2009· Bad end of slur when should stop on space at start of line.
· Resolve tie on two voices at end of line.
· Bad tuplets when combinevoices and some possible chords.
Bad value of 'q' in tuplets when omitted and depending of M:
· (for p = 5, 7, 9 and above).
· Have ']' as a thick bar when not end of repeat.
· Accept ']|' (same as '[|') and '[:' (same as ']:').
· Add the BoundingBox in PS output (thanks to Martin Meyerspeer).
· Crash when more than 8 notes in a chord.
· Don't put lyrics on grace notes.
· Don't put P: or Q: above a multimeasure rest.
· Reset the ABC2WIN flag (detection of new line by '!') at each tune.
December 31st, 2008· This release introduces several layout improvements and new commands. Users are encouraged to upgrade.
December 24th, 2008· Lots of layout bugs were fixed.
October 2nd, 2008· The decorations +/+, +//+, and +///+ (which place tremolo on one note) were added.
· Several major bugs were fixed.