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+<H1>New Mup Features</H1>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 5.3</H2>
+<P>
+Version 5.3 is primarily focused on ease of use enhancements.
+The largest item is the additional of a companion program, called Mupmate,
+that provides an interface for editing, displaying, and playing Mup files
+with the kinds of menus and windows that many people are used to.
+The Help menu will take you right to the
+<A HREF="uguide/index.html">Mup User's Guide,</A>
+which has also had improvements made.
+If you are a user who prefers the command line interface that Mup
+has always had, don't worry; we like to use that too,
+and have no intention of dropping support for it.
+</P>
+<P>
+Windows users now only need to
+<A HREF="obtain.html#windows">download a single file</A>
+and execute it to
+install everything (although you still need to get and install GSview and
+Ghostscript separately, if you want to use that for viewing the PostScript
+files). Other users can also just download a single file that contains
+both program and documentation.
+</P>
+<P>
+Other new features in 5.3 include:
+<UL>
+<LI>
+Error and warning messages have been enhanced to show you the text
+of the line of input where the problem was found.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#pgsize">pagesize parameter</A>
+that lets you specify paper size by common names like letter or a4,
+as an alternate to specifying
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#pgheight">pageheight</A> and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#pgheight">pagewidth</A> in
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#units">inches or cm.</A>
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#vcombine">vcombine parameter,</A> that lets
+you enter notes on separate voices, yet have them printed on a common stem
+when possible. Typical uses are:
+<UL>
+<LI>
+To have separate
+<A HREF="uguide/midi.html">MIDI</A> tracks for different voices, yet have the
+voices printed on common stems.
+<LI>
+For a style of printing where a single
+stem is used for the two voices on a staff except when the voices share a
+common note, when two opposing stems are printed.
+</UL>
+<LI>
+The
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#scorepad">scorepad parameter</A> now accepts an
+optional maximum value, in addition to the minimum value.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 5.2</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+There is now a
+<A HREF="uguide/ifclause.html">generalized 'if' clause'</A> that is
+much more flexible and powerful than the simple
+<A HREF="uguide/macros.html">ifdef and ifndef.</A>
+These provide capabilities somewhat similar to the preprocessors for
+the C and C++ languages.
+<LI>
+Complicated
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#time">time signatures</A> are now supported.
+This includes a numerator with two or more numbers added together,
+like 3+4 / 4, or two or more fractions added together, like 3/4 + 3/8.
+Alternating time signatures, such as when a piece continuously
+switches between 3/4 and 6/8, are also supported.
+<LI>
+The
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beamstyl">beamstyle</A>
+and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#timeunit">timeunit</A>
+parameter values associated with a
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#time">time signature</A>
+are now remembered, so that if you later change back to the same time signature,
+you don't have to also set the beamstyle and timeunit at the same time;
+the value used previously for that time signature will be
+restored automatically.
+(Note that if you have existing Mup files that rely on the old behavior,
+they may need small modifications, but that should be rare.)
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/chrdattr.html#stemdir">force stem direction</A>on voices 1 and 2
+even when the other voice is not space.
+<LI>
+Improvements have been made to how the
+angle for beams is calculated.
+The "best" angle for a beam is sometimes somewhat subjective,
+but in general, these changes will result in more
+cases where beams are horizontal or less sloped,
+<LI>
+There are also additional ways you can control beams:
+A new
+<A HREF="uguide/ichdattr.html#slope">slope interchord attribute</A>
+lets you force a specific slope.
+The new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#sshorten">stemshorten parameter</A>
+lets you determine how much a chord's stem
+is allowed to be shortened when it is beamed.
+And the existing
+<A HREF="uguide/chrdattr.html#stemlen">len chord attribute</A>
+can now be set for
+just one end of a beamed set of chords as an alternative to
+setting it at both ends.
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/index.html">The HTML version of the Mup User's Guide</A>
+now includes 'next page' and 'previous page' links on each page.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 5.1</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+You may specify <A HREF="uguide/chordinp.html#duration">a time value that is the
+summation of several time values.</A> This can be used to obtain
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beamstyl">beaming</A>,
+<A HREF="uguide/lyrics.html">lyrics</A>, or
+<A HREF="uguide/tuplets.html">tuplets</A> with durations that
+cannot be represented with a single time value, like a half note plus
+an eighth note. It also gives an alternate way to specify
+<A HREF="uguide/ichdattr.html#tie">chord ties.</A>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/crossst.html">Cross-staff stems</A> are now supported.
+<LI>
+You can now explicitly specify a direction of "up" on
+<A HREF="uguide/roll.html">rolls</A> to get an upward arrow drawn at the
+top of the roll. (Before, only a downward roll would get an arrow.)
+<LI>
+Mup will now allow you to
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beamstyl">beam across spaces</A> as well
+as rests.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#restsymm">restsymmult parameter.</A>
+Setting it to y will cause Mup to use an alternate style for
+multirests of eight measures or less, which uses rest symbols.
+<LI>
+There is a new string sequence that will be replaced by
+<A HREF="uguide/headfoot.html#pagenum">the page number of the last page.</A>
+This may useful to be able to automatically get output
+like "Page 2 of 4 pages."
+<LI>
+There is a new option for printing of
+<A HREF="uguide/tuplets.html">tuplet</A> numbers,
+where the number is always printed, but the bracket is never printed.
+<LI>
+If you want to have the same
+<A HREF="uguide/lyrics.html">lyrics</A>
+above some staffs and below others,
+it is now possible to specify that on a single input line,
+rather than requiring two.
+<LI>
+Improvements have been made to how voice 3 is placed,
+which will often eliminate the need to manually specify a
+<A HREF="uguide/chrdattr.html#hoffset">horizontal offset.</A>
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 5.0</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+Mup now supports the
+<A HREF="uguide/shaped.html">shaped notes</A>
+often used in "Sacred
+Harp" music, also sometimes called "fasola" notation.
+New note head characters are available for the most common system of 4 shapes,
+as well as a system with 7 shapes.
+As part of this feature, there is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/shaped.html#hdshape">headshape context</A>
+and a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#notehead">noteheads parameter</A>
+that lets you define what shapes will be used for notes.
+<LI>
+Note head shapes can also be specified on
+<A HREF="uguide/shaped.html#chord">specific chords</A>
+or
+<A HREF="uguide/shaped.html#note">a specific note within a chord.</A>
+This makes it possible to do things like have both normal
+and X-shaped notes on the same stem.
+<LI>
+There are new "slash"
+<A HREF="uguide/shaped.html">note heads,</A>
+often used to indicate
+repeated chords, and a new "blankhead" note head, that can be
+used if you just want a stem without any note head.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#stemlen">stemlen parameter</A>
+that lets you set the default stem length. A common use for this would
+be to set this parameter to 0.0,
+to not have any stems at all (sometimes used for chant).
+<LI>
+It is now possible to change the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#clef">clef,</A>
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#defoct">defoct,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#release">release</A>
+parameters in the
+<A HREF="uguide/midmeas.html">middle of a measure.</A>
+<LI>
+You can now include
+<A HREF="uguide/prnttext.html#postscript">raw PostScript</A>
+in the input to the copied to the output. This could be used,
+for example, to include a picture or logo with your music.
+<LI>
+In addition to the old way of specifying
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#key">key signature,</A>
+by stating the number of sharps or flats,
+it is now possible to specify the key by name, as in "a major"
+or "c# minor."
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#swing">swingunit parameter.</A>
+Some styles of music are often written with straight eighth notes
+or dotted-eighth-sixteeen notations, but where the players "know"
+that the composer really wants the music played
+with the first note in each pair twice as long as the second,
+as if it were a quarter-eighth triplet.
+This parameter will make Mup's MIDI output automatically follow that kind of
+performance convention.
+<LI>
+It is possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/bars.html#setreh">set the rehearsal letter or number</A>
+to a specific value, to override the automatic incrementing.
+This might be especially useful when there are multiple songs or movements
+in a single Mup file.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.6</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+There are new
+<A HREF="uguide/headfoot.html">top, bottom, top2, and bottom2 contexts</A>
+that let you define a second layer of headers and footers. These new
+contexts can be changed multiple times in a file, so you can use different
+headings and footing for different songs or movements within a file.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/prnttext.html#block">"block" context,</A>
+that lets you place blocks of text in your musical scores.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/prnttext.html#paragrph">paragraph</A> command for printing
+long sections of text that you would like to have automatically wrapped
+around unto as many lines as needed. The right margin can be justified
+or ragged.
+<LI>
+For Linux, in addition to being available in tar.gz format, Mup files are now
+<A HREF="obtain.html#linux">available in rpm package format,</A>
+for very quick-and-easy installation. The
+MS-DOS/Windows Mup files are now available as
+<A HREF="obtain.html#windows">self-extracting zip files,</A>
+so you don't need to have
+an unzip program to unpack them.
+<LI>
+The
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#visible">visible parameter</A>
+now accepts a value of "whereused."
+With this value, when a staff has no notes on an entire score,
+that staff is not printed. This might be used, for example,
+to save paper on an orchestral score by only printing staffs for
+instruments when they are actually playing.
+<LI>
+There are new parameters
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#mnumfont">measnumfont,</A>
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#mnumfam">measnumfontfamily,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#mnumsize">measnumsize,</A>
+to control the appearance of
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#measnum">automatic measure numbers.</A>
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html">unset parameters</A>
+in voice or staff context, to make them revert to their values
+in the next more general context where they are set (staff or score).
+<LI>
+When a repeatstart gets moved to the beginning of a score, sometimes
+you'd like the bar line at the end of the previous score to be a double
+bar rather than single bar. It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/bars.html">specify that.</A>
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/cmdargs.html#Foption">-F option</A>
+that is like the -f option, except it derives the name of the output
+file based on the name of the input file, rather than you needing to
+specify an output file name.
+<LI>
+The Mup input file name is given in the PostScript output file,
+so that PostScript viewer programs like gv can use it in their window title.
+<LI>
+There is now a
+<A HREF="maillist.html">majordomo mailing list available for
+registered Mup users.</A> This is a forum for talking with other Mup users,
+to discuss questions and tips on using Mup.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.5</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/cmdargs.html#xoption">-x option</A>
+that lets you extract a portion of a song. This can be
+especially useful for MIDI, where you might want
+to listen to just a few measures
+in the middle or end of a piece. But it also works in printing mode,
+so you can print just an excerpt of a piece.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to specify "subbeams," both with
+<A HREF="uguide/ichdattr.html#custbeam">custom beaming</A> and via the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beamstyl">beamstyle parameter.</A>
+This can be used when there are a lot of very short notes,
+and you want to subdivide the beam groupings.
+<LI>
+The drawing of phrase marks, ties, and slurs has been re-implemented to
+produce more aesthetically pleasing curves.
+<LI>
+There is a new special character,
+<A HREF="uguide/textstr.html#space">called \(space),</A>
+which is printed like
+a normal space on output, but which is not treated like a space when Mup is
+looking for word or syllable boundaries. The most common use for this would
+probably be on
+<A HREF="uguide/lyrics.html">chant lyrics,</A>
+where you want several words to be sung to the same note.
+It might also be useful in cases where Mup would normally split a long
+string at a word boundary to avoid running off the edge of a page,
+but for some reason you want to prevent that splitting.
+<LI>
+It is possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/linecurv.html">print a text string centered above a line.</A>
+This is likely to be the most useful for printing "gliss." by a wavy
+line for a glissando, but it can be used on any kind of line.
+<LI>
+There are some new <a HREF="userpgms.html">user-donated files,</A>
+including a Windows installer, and Mup syntax files for nedit and vim.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.4</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+Many of the changes in this release were to make Mup conform more closely with
+established guidelines or rules for musical notation.
+This mainly involved small adjustments to cosmetic details, like
+how accidentals and dots are placed.
+For mid-score clef changes, the clef is now placed before the barline,
+as it should be, rather than after.
+There is also an improved algorithm for determining where to
+end the underscores on lyrics.
+<LI>
+The use of labels, both
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#label">labels associated with individual staffs</A>
+and labels associated with staffs grouped by
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#brace">braces</A> or
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#bracket">brackets</A>,
+has been made more flexible.
+It used to be that the "label" was only used on
+the very first score, with "label2" used on all subsequent scores.
+Thus resetting label after the beginning really had no effect.
+Now, however, whenever a new label is specified, that label will be used for the
+next score, going back to label2 for subsequent scores.
+As an example, this might be useful if staff 1 was used for just soprano
+at the beginning of the song,
+so you wanted label="Soprano" and label2="S"
+for that portion, but later soprano and alto share the staff, so you would
+like label="Soprano/alto" to clearly point out the change, but then
+revert to just "SA" on subsequent staffs, to conserve space.
+<LI>
+You can specify a bulge direction for
+<A HREF="uguide/noteattr.html#ntie">note ties,</A>
+<A HREF="uguide/noteattr.html#nslur">note slurs,</A>
+<A HREF="uguide/ichdattr.html#tie">chord ties,</A> and
+<A HREF="uguide/ichdattr.html#slur">chord slurs,</A>
+if you wish to override Mup's choice of direction.
+<LI>
+You can now use \s(PV) or \s(previous) in a text string to return to
+the previous
+<A HREF="uguide/textstr.html#size">size.</A>
+<LI>
+The
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#clef">8treble clef</A> is now supported.
+This is like the treble8 clef, except the 8 is printed above the G clef
+rather than below it, to show notes that sound an octave <I>higher</I> than
+a normal treble clef.
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/phrase.html">Phrase marks</A> can now have
+an optional line type modifier of dotted or dashed.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.3</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#rehstyle">rehstyle parameter</A>
+that controls whether rehearsal marks are boxed, circled, or plain.
+<LI>
+It is no longer necessary to specify verse numbers for
+<A HREF="uguide/lyrics.html">lyrics</A>
+(unless you want to skip a verse). If not specified, each
+succeeding set of lyrics for a given staff and place defaults
+to having a verse number one more than the previous verse.
+<LI>
+There is a new way to
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#sylpos">force the position of individual lyrics syllables</A>
+that is particularly useful for ensuring that verse numbers or the
+beginnings of poetic lines align consistently on all verses.
+<LI>
+There are new
+<A HREF="uguide/cmdargs.html#Eoption">-E and -C options</A>
+that let you see how macros expand, which can help you in debugging
+very complex macros.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#staffpad">staffpad parameter</A>,
+and the value of the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#scorepad">scorepad parameter</A>
+can now be negative. Using negative values for these can let you
+jam staffs or scores closer together in cases where
+Mup is spacing them wider apart than is really necessary.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to have more than one voice on
+<A HREF="uguide/tabstaff.html">tablature staffs</A>
+just like on non-tablature.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/newscore.html">temporarily override margins</A>
+on a particular score. This can let you indent one score differently
+than the others, or end a piece with a shorter-than-normal score.
+<LI>
+There is now an "alt pedstar" value for the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#pedstyle">pedstyle parameter</A>
+This is like the "pedstar" value
+except that when there is a pedal "bounce,"
+only a "Ped" is printed, rather than a "* Ped."
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="userpgms.html">user-donated program</A> called
+<A HREF="ftp://ftp.arkkra.com/pub/dos/user.pgms/winmup11.zip">Winmup</A>
+which provides a Windows front-end for the MS-DOS version of Mup. The
+<A HREF="ftp://ftp.arkkra.com/pub/dos/user.pgms/winmup11src.zip">Visual Basic source
+code for Winmup</A> is also available.
+<LI>
+Several miscellaneous changes were made to improve the quality of
+printed output and to improve portability.
+Current Mup users may find the layout of some songs may change
+somewhat when they upgrade.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.2</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+A <A HREF="uguide/param.html#vscheme">third voice per staff</A>
+is now supported.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/chrdattr.html#hoffset">adjust the horizontal placement of notes.</A>
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beamstyl">beam across rests.</A>
+<LI>
+The optional
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#measnum">automatic measure numbers
+at the beginnings of scores</A> are now printed in a larger size.
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/altinp.html">The chord-at-a-time input style</A>
+has been made more versatile. Previously,
+if a voice was mentioned in a pattern, that voice could not be used for
+voice-at-a-time input style in that measure, even if the pattern was
+never actually used. Now the restriction only applies if the pattern is
+actually used.
+<LI>
+Strings can be printed
+<A HREF="uguide/textstr.html#boxed">enclosed in a circle or elipse.</A>
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beamslp">beamslope parameter</A>
+that controls the maximum tilt for beams.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#pad">pad parameter</A>
+that provides an additional way to control how close together
+note groups are placed horizontally.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/midi.html">MIDI "port" keyword.</A>
+This can let you assign different tracks to different ports on
+multi-port MIDI devices, allowing for more than 16 channels.
+<LI>
+The minimum values for the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#scoresep">scoresep</A> and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#staffsep">staffsep</A> parameters
+can now be set as low as 6, rather than the previous minimum of 9.
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.1</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/textmark.html#grids">Guitar grids</A> can now be
+printed, either
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#gridused">where they are used in the music,</A>
+or
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#gridend">summarized at the end of a song.</A>
+There is also a
+<A HREF="userpgms.html">library of pre-defined grids</A>
+that you can
+<A HREF="uguide/include.html">"include"</A> in your music.
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/textstr.html#special">Non-ASCII characters from the Latin-1 alphabet</A> can now be typed directly
+into strings in Mup input, rather than needing to be specified by name.
+Shortcut names have also been added for guillemots.
+<LI>
+The maximum
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#staffs">number of staffs</A> has been raised to 40.
+<LI>
+The
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#stlines">stafflines</A>
+and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#stscale">staffscale</A>
+parameters can now be changed at any bar line rather than only at the
+beginning of a song. Changing either of them forces a new score.
+<LI>
+The <A HREF="uguide/param.html#staffsep">staffsep</A>
+parameter can now be set on a per-staff basis, rather than just
+for the score as a whole.
+<LI>
+There are new parameters that allow you to control the order that items
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#aboveord">above,</A>
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#beloword">below,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#betwnord">between</A>
+staffs are stacked.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#nummrpt">
+turn off the automatic numbering of measure repeats</A>
+and the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#prmultn">
+printing of multirest numbers.</A>
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/chrdattr.html#dist">specify the vertical placement of a rest character,</A>
+if you want to override Mup's automatic placement.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/textstr.html#strcat">concatenate strings.</A>
+This is likely to be most useful in
+<A HREF="uguide/macros.html">macros,</A>
+but can be used anywhere strings are used.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#firstpg">firstpage parameter,</A>
+which is similar to the
+<A HREF="uguide/cmdargs.html#poption">-p command line option,</A>
+for setting the first page number.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#restcomb">restcombine parameter,</A>
+which is similar to the
+<A HREF="uguide/cmdargs.html#coption">-c command line option,</A>
+for automatically combining a sequences of rest measures into
+<A HREF="uguide/multirst.html">multirests.</A>
+<LI>
+Music symbols that occur inside ital or boldital strings will
+<A HREF="uguide/textmark.html#italmus">automatically be made italics</A>
+to match the string.
+<LI>
+It is possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/lyrics.html#centered">vertically center lyrics.</A>
+This is useful when there is a refrain with identical words for all
+verses, and you only want it printed once.
+<LI>
+It is now allowed to have a
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#brace">brace</A>
+to the left of
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#bracket">brackets,</A>
+to group a subset of staffs.
+(Previously, only brackets were allowed to be nested that way.)
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>New Features in Mup Version 4.0</H2>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>
+There is now an
+<A HREF="uguide/altinp.html">alternate input style,</A>
+in which you can enter music a chord at a time rather than a voice at
+a time. For certain kinds of music, this may be more natural,
+and allow you to enter music more quickly.
+<A HREF="uguide/chordinp.html">The previous input style</A>
+has also been made more flexible, such that it
+is now possible to specify that one line of input will go to voice 1
+on one staff or set of staffs and voice 2 on another staff or set of staffs.
+These enhancements make it easier to do things like input a vocal score and
+<A HREF="uguide/pianored.html">automatically get a piano reduction.</A>
+<LI>
+It is now possible to
+<A HREF="uguide/macros.html#quoting">transform a parameter passed
+to a macro into a string.</A>
+If you are a C programmer, you will find this works somewhat
+like the # operator of ANSI C preprocessor macros. If you're not a
+C programmer, suffice it to say that this allows Mup macros to be used
+to do things they couldn't do before.
+<LI>
+There is a new special bar type, called
+<A HREF="uguide/bars.html#restart">restart</A>, that lets you
+end the current set of staffs and begin a new set of staffs on the same
+line, as is sometimes done for a short coda.
+<LI>
+The symbols for accidentals (like # and &) are now translated to
+their corresponding musical symbols everywhere in
+<A HREF="uguide/textmark.html#chordmod">chords,</A>
+rather than only if they immediately follow the letters A through G.
+You can, however, turn off this automatic translation
+for individual cases where you want them to be treated literally.
+<LI>
+<A HREF="uguide/chordinp.html#duration">Quadruple whole rests</A> are supported.
+<LI>
+It is possible to force a
+<A HREF="uguide/chordinp.html#measdur">measure rest</A>
+to be shown with a rest symbol other than the whole rest symbol
+that is usually used.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#addxpose">addtranspose parameter</A>. This
+enables you to use the
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#xpose">transpose parameter</A> to change
+the transposition on specific staffs for transposing instruments,
+then use addtranpose to transpose the entire score into a new key.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#warn">warn parameter</A> which allows you
+to control whether warning messages are printed or not.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#ontheline">ontheline parameter</A>. This
+allows you to control whether notes on 1-line staffs are printed above, below,
+or on the line.
+<LI>
+The
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#dist">dist,</A>
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#chdist">chorddist,</A>
+and
+<A HREF="uguide/param.html#cresdist">crescdist</A>
+parameters can be
+<A HREF="uguide/stuff.html#dist">overridden on individual items.</A>
+A dist override can also be specified on
+<A HREF="uguide/bars.html#reh">rehearsal marks.</A>
+Each dist override can also include a modifier
+to force items to a specific place,
+even if they then overwrite other items that Mup would normally avoid.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="uguide/cmdargs.html#moption">-M option</A> which is like the
+-m option, except the name of the MIDI file is derived from the Mup
+input file name, rather than requiring you to supply a name.
+<LI>
+If a given input file name does not exist, Mup will try appending .mup
+to the name and attempt to open that file.
+<LI>
+It is now possible to specify an
+<A HREF="uguide/chordinp.html#restspc">uncollapseable space</A>.
+This may be useful when drawing "slash" marks and at other times.
+<LI>
+There is a new
+<A HREF="userpgms.html">user-donated program</A> called midi2mup, which
+is a Perl script that can convert a MIDI file to Mup input.
+<LI>
+The uguide gives examples of how to
+<A HREF="uguide/verses.html">places verses as text blocks below the scores.</A>
+</UL>
+</P>
+<H2>Coming Attractions</H2>
+<P>
+We're always interested in hearing about what features you would
+like to see in the next version of Mup.
+What features we add will depend on your input, so
+please send us a note at
+<A HREF="mailto:support@arkkra.com">support@arkkra.com.</A>
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