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diff --git a/Build/source/utils/xindy-old/AUTHORS b/Build/source/utils/xindy-old/AUTHORS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c775c7bc814 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/utils/xindy-old/AUTHORS @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ + +AUTHORS OF XINDY +================ + +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; though he tries to forget +this when he looks at the code. 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. + + +Email addresses for the authors are best looked up in the mailing list +archives. |