1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 2<!DOCTYPE preface PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" 3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"> 4<preface id='acknowledgement'> 5<title>Acknowledgement</title> 6<para> 7This document is the result of a great deal of hard work by a great 8many people. Without Erik Fortune’s work as Architect of the X 9Keyboard Extension and the longtime support of Silicon Graphics 10Inc. there would not be a keyboard extension. 11</para> 12<para> 13We gratefully thank Will Walker and George Sachs for their help and 14expertise in providing some of the content for this document, and 15Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard for allowing them 16to participate in this project, and we are deeply indebted to IBM for 17providing the funding to complete this library specification. 18</para> 19<para> 20Most of all, we thank Gary Aitken and Amber J. Benson for their long 21hours and late nights as ultimate authors of this specification, and 22for serving as authors, document editors, and XKB protocol and 23implementation reviewers. Their commitment to accuracy and completeness, 24their attention to detail, their keen insight, and their good natures 25when working under tremendous pressure are in some measure responsible 26not only for the quality of this document, but for the quality of the 27Keyboard extension itself. 28</para> 29<para> 30<literallayout> 31Matt Landau 32Manager, X Window System 33X Consortium Inc. 34</literallayout> 35</para> 36<simplesect> 37<title>X Version 11, Release 7 addendum</title> 38<para> 39This document is made available to you in modern formats such as HTML and PDF 40thanks to the efforts of Matt Dew, who converted the original troff sources to 41DocBook/XML and edited them into shape; Fernando Carrijo, who converted the 42images to SVG format; Gaetan Nadon, who set up the formatting machinery in 43the libX11 builds and performed further editing of the DocBook markup; and 44Alan Coopersmith, who converted the DocBook tags to semantic markup and 45cleaned up other formatting issues. 46</para> 47</simplesect> 48</preface> 49