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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.
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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.
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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.
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31Matt Landau
32Manager, X Window System
33X Consortium Inc.
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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.
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