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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2021-02-25 19:22:25 +0000
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+Donald Knuth conceived and implemented TeX, Metafont, and WEB.
+John Hobby wrote MetaPost (partially derived from Metafont) and dvitomp.
+Peter Breitenlohner wrote dvicopy.
+Tomas Rokicki wrote gftopk, pktogf, and pktype.
+Frank Liang wrote patgen version 1, and Peter Breitenlohner did patgen 2.
+Oren Patashnik wrote BibTeX.
+Michael Ferguson and Bernd Raichle wrote the MLTeX extensions.
+Ignacio Zabala implemented DOC, the prototype for WEB.
+
+Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis initially ported TeX and related
+ programs to Unix.
+Paul Richards initially ported Metafont.
+Pierre MacKay initially ported the MFware programs.
+Richard Furuta initially ported some of the TeXware programs.
+Ulrik Vieth initially adapted MetaPost to Kpathsea.
+
+Tomas Rokicki wrote the original TeX to C program.
+Tim Morgan made many subsequent changes.
+
+Dozens of other people have contributed to porting, bug fixes, and other
+improvements. (The names are recorded in the ChangeLogs to the best of
+my knowledgement. Do not hesitate to send corrections.)
+
+Karl Berry maintained the distribution for several years, ending his
+first tenure with version 7.0, whereupon Olaf Weber took over. Karl
+reentered the scene some years later, in collaboration with Olaf and
+others.
+
+Peter Breitenlohner has made pervasive improvements to the build
+structure and tests.