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+AUTHORS OF XINDY
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+The xindy base system (CLISP plugins and kernel) was written by Roger
+Kehr, under supervision of Joachim Schrod as a student project in
+1995. It used an architectural design from Joachim that was prototyped
+in his research work on International Makeindex and STIL (SGML
+Transformations In Lisp). Roger continued to work on xindy until 2000,
+but is not involved in xindy development any more. In these years he
+especially designed and realized the current sort-rules framework.
+
+Having been involved as the project's supervisor from the start,
+Joachim Schrod is xindy's lead maintainer since 2000. Together with
+Christine Detig, he wrote the LaTeX Companion (2nd ed.) chapter on
+indexing where xindy is presented. As part of that work, he designed
+and realized user commands and xindy base modules. Ordrules, the basic
+rule evaluation facility, is also his work. In 2009, he moved xindy to
+a pure Lisp implementation, making compilation much easier and the
+overall system much more portable.
+    Joachim also creates the `official' releases, eventually, after
+some time, well, after a long time.
+
+Thomas Henlich wrote the make-rules package that generates xindy
+sort-rules for many languages, with special support for LaTeX Internal
+Character Representations (the markup that appears in *.idx files).
+Martin Vermeer contributed many improvements to this package.
+
+Gour took over the herculian task to create a source distribution from
+the shattered source parts, i.e., this current distribution form that
+uses autoconf/automake and can be installed with the canonical
+"./configure ; make ; make install" procedure. He also maintains the
+Gentoo ebuild package of xindy.
+
+Jörg Sommer chimed in and improved Gour's installation process by
+enabling to use an already installed CLISP. He is also the Debian
+package maintainer of xindy.
+
+Vladimir Volovich changed xindy's compilation and install process to
+fit into TeX-Live, first for TL 2008. He also created the first
+Windows and Mac OS X versions that way. He is also the TeX Live
+package maintainer of xindy.
+
+Peter Breitenlohner improved xindy's autoconf mechanism for better
+integration in TeX-Live 2010 and better maintainability.
+
+Akira Kakuto was instrumental in getting Windows support into shape
+into the hands of many people. Ulrike Fisher pushes for inclusion in
+MikTeX.
+
+Several people contributed whole language modules or fixes for
+existing modules: Claudio Beccari, Vafa Khalighi, Dohyun Kim, Kihwang
+Lee, Pavel Striz, Apostolos Syropoulos.
+
+
+Email addresses for the authors are best looked up in the mailing list
+archives; for spam-protection reasons I don't want to list them here.