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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2021-02-25 19:22:25 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2021-02-25 19:22:25 +0000 |
commit | ad547a6b5986815fda458221149728d9d9ab1d87 (patch) | |
tree | 16296910eb3eca724371474ea9aea3994dc69614 /Build/source/texk/web2c/AUTHORS | |
parent | 947b43de3dd21d58ccc2ffadefc4441ea1c2a813 (diff) |
restore Build,TODO from r57911
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@57915 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/web2c/AUTHORS b/Build/source/texk/web2c/AUTHORS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cfa80450c81 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/web2c/AUTHORS @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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. |