Funding
The LuaTeX project is related to other projects in the TeX community. First of all it follows up on the pdfTeX project which over the past years has received some funding from user groups and individuals and companies.
Programming LuaTeX has been funded by:
- Oriental TeX Project, Colorado State University, Department of Philosophy (Idris Samawi Hamid): core reprogramming
- The NTG (Dutch Speaking Usergroup): funding for coding and related projects.
- TUG (TeX User Group): funding for coding and related projects.
- Dante (German User Group): funding for coding and related projects.
- CAPDM, distant learning programmes (represented by Duncan Hothersall): coding
- Patrick Gundlach: a donation that triggered buying a computer for testing on OS/X.
- Anonymous donations via the TUG webpage: complementary funding.
Occasionally additional donations are made. Thanks to this sponsoring Taco could spend company time on merging the pdfTeX and Aleph code base and writing the necessarry extensions.
Programming the associated MetaPost library is funded by several user groups:
- Dante (german langauge)
- CSTUG (czech and slovak langauges)
- GUST (polish language)
- NTG (dutch language)
- TUG (international user group)
The necessarry Open Type Fonts are provided by the TeX Gyre project:
- Dante (german langauge)
- CSTUG (czech and slovak langauges)
- GUST (polish language)
- NTG (dutch language)
- TUG (international user group)
- TUG India
The LuaTeX and MPlib project are coordinated by Taco Hoekwater (Elvenkind) and Hans Hagen (Pragma ADE). They are dedicating a considerable amount of company time to the development of LuaTeX.
Of course, TeXies around the world put lots of time into these developments as well. Thanks to them for testing and supporting the team.
Funding is only possible because the user groups have members. In addition to journals, distributions (TeX Live), meetings and mailing lists, supporting projects are an important effort of local user groups (LUGS) and TUG. The international user group has a web page for donations
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