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2<title>Acknowledgement</title>
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4This document is the result of a great deal of hard work by a great
5many people. Without Erik Fortune’s work as Architect of the X
6Keyboard Extension and the longtime support of Silicon Graphics
7Inc. there would not be a keyboard extension.
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9<para>
10We gratefully thank Will Walker and George Sachs for their help and
11expertise in providing some of the content for this document, and
12Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard for allowing them
13to participate in this project, and we are deeply indebted to IBM for
14providing the funding to complete this library specification.
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17Most of all, we thank Gary Aitken and Amber J. Benson for their long
18hours and late nights as ultimate authors of this specification, and
19for serving as authors, document editors, and XKB protocol and
20implementation reviewers. Their commitment to accuracy and completeness,
21their attention to detail, their keen insight, and their good natures
22when working under tremendous pressure are in some measure responsible
23not only for the quality of this document, but for the quality of the
24Keyboard extension itself.
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28Matt Landau
29Manager, X Window System
30X Consortium Inc.
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36This document is made available to you in modern formats such as HTML and PDF
37thanks to the efforts of Matt Dew, who converted the original troff sources to
38DocBook/XML and edited them into shape; Fernando Carrijo, who converted the
39images to SVG format; and Gaetan Nadon, who set up the formatting machinery in
40the libX11 builds and performed further editing of the DocBook markup.
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