minor changes to attributions

diff --git a/parts/AUTHORS.tex b/parts/AUTHORS.tex
index cc76918c187e4eea426579564f2800bcb594bb25..690bcdf4174de432ebce0d3457f1b3e66dcd8dd5 100644 (file)
--- a/parts/AUTHORS.tex
+++ b/parts/AUTHORS.tex
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ internationalization work, plugins, and IIRC ffmpeg support appeared in one of t
 \item Dumuid, Pierre - assisted in merge efforts; added column in File Load dialog box for sorting by extension; wrote Selective Temporal Averaging plugin. 
 \item Erdelyi, Georgely - early on provided patches for libsndfile, titler, and other programs to compile on Suse.
 \item Ferralis, Nicola - updated Ubuntu PPA over many years; along with Slock Ruddy, responsible for GreyCStoration plugin (currently inactive in \CGG{}), worked on Italian translation.
-\item Ferrer, Alex - originally put up a Cinelerra manual TWiki; maintained the wiki.
+\item Ferrer, Alex - originally put up a Cinelerra manual TWiki; added numerous screenshots / additional topics and maintained the wiki.
 \item Flaming, Benjamin - created the Diffkey plugin. 
 \item Geddes, Tyler - contributed to CV Version.
 \item Harang, Camille - worked on fixing guicast programs for big Endian; part of small team of 3 that used Cinelerra to make short documentaries/interviews.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ internationalization work, plugins, and IIRC ffmpeg support appeared in one of t
 \item Kielb, Andreas - created Firewire I/O patches.
 \item Konink, Stefan de - added patch for playing without sound.
 \item Kurz, Nathan - added a YUV4MPEG pipe output dialog to the user interface; yuvstream.C program developer; early contributor.
-\item Maufrais, Nicolas - collaborated on the Cinelerra-CV manual.
+\item Maufrais, Nicolas - combined Adam's original Secrets of Cinelerra manual with Alex Ferrer’s Wiki into a single CV manual.  He was responsible for maintenance along with many others.
 \item Mekkes, Greg - added patch to Motion Blur plugin.
 \item Menk, Michael Eric - contributed to CV Version.
 \item Montgomery, Monty - Blue Banana color modification plugin; fileffmpeg developer in CV fork.
@@ -88,12 +88,13 @@ internationalization work, plugins, and IIRC ffmpeg support appeared in one of t
 \item Taraba, Mark - provided support for all types of PNGs; first Mailing List entry in August 2004.
 \item Thaeter, Christian -  maintained server to host Cinelerra-CV website.
 \item Tori, Andraz - responsible for Cinelerra x86 Debian packages; worked on an SVG plugin; added overlaying speedup patch; major early contributor and lots of debugging.
-\item Traniello, Raffaella - best known for "Cinelerra for Grandma" still active at \url{http://g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/basics.html} .
+\item Traniello, Raffaella - best known for "Cinelerra for Grandma" still active at \url{http://g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/basics.html} and helped to maintain the CV manual.
 \item Vladimirsky, Igor - was igor\_ubuntu at one time; developer of the Russian po file; currently supports the Cinelerra-CV site; and much, much more work; noted first entry in Mailing List 2014.
 \item Vosseler, Hermann - developer of the Reroute plugin used to transfer the Alpha
 channel and/or the RGB/YUV Components from source track to target track; significant
 Bezier automation patch for fades, camera and projector.
 \item Wulff, Jonas - patched Histogram plugin to provide a split output screen.
 \newline
-\item \textbf{+ many others}.
+\item \textbf{+ many others}. We will gladly add anyone who has been inadvertently left out
+and their contribution to this list upon notification.
 \end{itemize}

diff --git a/parts/Introduction.tex b/parts/Introduction.tex
index d70ec71d885ecea80dc0493c12f52c7b71d7c568..dd36a8933a032238a7be5dabc5837404329452fc 100644 (file)
--- a/parts/Introduction.tex
+++ b/parts/Introduction.tex
@@ -12,11 +12,18 @@ This manual covers the \CGG{} \INF{} version.  Information
 contained in this manual is a description of the \CGG{} program
 usage and was obtained from various sources to include different
 communication channels, emails, common knowledge, and write-ups as
-new features were added.  The author of the original
+new features were added.  The origin of this manual has always been present in the \CGG{} source code in the doc subdirectory as cinelerral.html and can be found at: \href{https://git.cinelerra-gg.org/git/?p=goodguy/cinelerra.git;a=blob;f=cinelerra-5.1/doc/cinelerra.html;h=f7742b50255d5412af5c4941c5be52bb556d99cd;hb=7fd85fb66168f6b518c5f2d73e04036e87faa0e1}{Secrets of Cinelerra} by the original author Adam Williams.
+Over time his manual was enhanced by Alex Ferrer with Adam's and Alex's work becoming the
+baseline for the CV manual and subsequently that combined work was mostly incorporated into this manual.
+Interestingly, starting from Secrets of Cinelerra which is about 122 full pages, to the CV manual
+of about 212 pages at the time it was incorporated here, this manual has now grown to over 780 pages.
+More information about the manual and source code contributions can be found here: \nameref{cha:contributors}.
+
+The author of the original
 \textsc{Cinelerra} program, Adam Williams, as well as many different
 people have modified the \textsc{Cinelerra} source code over the
-years.  William Morrow merged all of the known changes, whenever
-possible, into this \CGG{} version and has been adding numerous
+years.  William Morrow used Adam's source code as the  baseline and merged all of the known changes at the time, whenever
+possible, into this \CGG{} version and had been adding numerous
 features, updates, and fixes.
 
 {\small \textbf{NOTE1:} This manual is a Work in Progress: monthly parts are added to cover the new features introduced in \CGG{}. The texts are continuously revised to make them clearer and more complete. In order to have a better and better product we rely on the suggestions and criticisms of our readers. Do not hesitate to let us know your opinions. For this continuous variability, we recommend that you download the manual at least once a month, during the release of \CGG{}, so that its content is always up to date.