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+++ b/doc/emacs/ack.texi
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-@c -*- coding: iso-latin-1 -*-
+@c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1994-1997, 1999-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
 @c
 @node Acknowledgments
@@ -44,16 +44,16 @@ Tomas Abrahamsson wrote @file{artist.el}, a package for producing
 @acronym{ASCII} art with a mouse or with keyboard keys.
 
 @item
-Jay K.@: Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
+Jay K. Adams wrote @file{jka-compr.el} and @file{jka-cmpr-hook.el},
 providing automatic decompression and recompression for compressed
 files.
 
 @item
 Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
 D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
-Avahi services; @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
-interface; and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
-storing confidential data.  He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
+Avahi services;
+and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
+storing confidential data.  He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
 provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
 other network protocols.  He and Daniel Pittman wrote
 @file{tramp-cache.el}.
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Joe Arceneaux wrote the original text property implementation, and
 implemented support for X11.
 
 @item
-Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
+Emil Åström, Milan Zamaza, and Stefan Bruda wrote @file{prolog.el},
 a mode for editing Prolog (and Mercury) code.
 
 @item
@@ -96,15 +96,15 @@ Eli Barzilay wrote @file{calculator.el}, a desktop calculator for
 Emacs.
 
 @item
-Steven L.@: Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
+Steven L. Baur wrote @file{footnote.el} which lets you include
 footnotes in email messages; and @file{gnus-audio.el} and
 @file{earcon.el}, which provide sound effects for Gnus.  He also wrote
 @file{gnus-setup.el}.
 
 @item
-Alexander L.@: Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
+Alexander L. Belikoff, Sergey Berezin, Sacha Chua, David Edmondson,
 Noah Friedman, Andreas Fuchs, Mario Lang, Ben Mesander, Lawrence
-Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schaefer,
+Mitchell, Gergely Nagy, Michael Olson, Per Persson, Jorgen Schäfer,
 Alex Schroeder, and Tom Tromey wrote ERC, an advanced Internet Relay
 Chat client (for more information, see the file @file{CREDITS} in the
 ERC distribution).
@@ -115,11 +115,15 @@ Christian Limpach and Adrian Robert developed and maintained the
 NeXTstep port of Emacs.
 
 @item
-Anna M.@: Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
+Stephen Berman wrote @file{todo-mode.el} (based on the original version
+by Oliver Seidel), a package for maintaining @file{TODO} list files.
 
 @item
-Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{delphi.el}, a mode for editing
-Delphi (Object Pascal) source code.
+Anna M. Bigatti wrote @file{cal-html.el}, which produces HTML calendars.
+
+@item
+Ray Blaak and Simon South wrote @file{opascal.el}, a mode for editing
+Object Pascal source code.
 
 @item
 Martin Blais, Stefan Merten, and David Goodger wrote @file{rst.el}, a
@@ -130,14 +134,14 @@ Jim Blandy wrote Emacs 19's input system, brought its configuration and
 build process up to the GNU coding standards, and contributed to the
 frame support and multi-face support.  Jim also wrote @file{tvi970.el},
 terminal support for the TeleVideo 970 terminals; and co-wrote
-@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.@:).
+@file{wyse50.el} (q.v.).
 
 @item
 Per Bothner wrote @file{term.el}, a terminal emulator in an Emacs
 buffer.
 
 @item
-Terrence M.@: Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
+Terrence M. Brannon wrote @file{landmark.el}, a neural-network robot
 that learns landmarks.
 
 @item
@@ -162,11 +166,11 @@ Kevin Broadey wrote @file{foldout.el}, providing folding extensions to
 Emacs's outline modes.
 
 @item
-David M.@: Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
+David M. Brown wrote @file{array.el}, for editing arrays and other
 tabular data.
 
 @item
-W@l{}odek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
+Włodek Bzyl and Ryszard Kubiak wrote @file{ogonek.el}, a package for
 changing the encoding of Polish characters.
 
 @item
@@ -184,7 +188,7 @@ Emacs Lisp functions; and @file{trace.el}, a tracing facility for Emacs
 Lisp.
 
 @item
-Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J.@: D.@: Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
+Chris Chase, Carsten Dominik, and J. D. Smith wrote IDLWAVE mode,
 for editing IDL and WAVE CL.
 
 @item
@@ -202,7 +206,7 @@ Andrew Choi and Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote the Carbon support, used
 prior to Emacs 23 for Mac OS.
 
 @item
-Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards.  He made many
+Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 to 24.3.  He made many
 improvements to the Emacs display engine.  He also wrote
 @file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data;
 and improved support for themes and packages.
@@ -244,8 +248,9 @@ files as ``thumbnails''.
 
 @item
 Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
-(@file{notifications.el}); and @file{color.el}, a library for general
-color manipulation.  He also made various contributions to Gnus.
+(@file{notifications.el}, and related packages for ERC and Gnus);
+and @file{color.el}, a library for general color manipulation.
+He also made various contributions to Gnus.
 
 @item
 Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
@@ -259,19 +264,19 @@ text replace the current selection.
 Eric Ding wrote @file{goto-addr.el},
 
 @item
-Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
+Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
 He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
 
 @item
 Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
 cross-references in @LaTeX{} documents; and co-wrote IDLWAVE mode
-(q.v.@:).  He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
+(q.v.).  He was the original author of Org mode, for maintaining notes,
 todo lists, and project planning.  Bastien Guerry subsequently took
-over maintainership.  Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
-Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S.@: Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
+over maintainership.  Benjamin Andresen, Thomas Baumann, Joel Boehland, Jan Böcker, Lennart
+Borgman, Baoqiu Cui, Dan Davison, Christian Egli, Eric S. Fraga, Daniel German, Chris Gray, Konrad Hinsen, Tassilo Horn, Philip
 Jackson, Martyn Jago, Thorsten Jolitz, Jambunathan K, Tokuya Kameshima, Sergey Litvinov, David Maus, Ross Patterson, Juan Pechiar, Sebastian Rose, Eric Schulte,
 Paul Sexton, Ulf Stegemann, Andy Stewart, Christopher Suckling, David O'Toole, John Wiegley, Zhang Weize,
-Piotr Zielinski, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
+Piotr Zieliński, and others also wrote various Org mode components.
 For more information, @pxref{History and Acknowledgments,,, org, The Org Manual}.
 
 @item
@@ -298,11 +303,10 @@ to VC and the calendar.
 
 @item
 Stephen Eglen wrote @file{mspools.el}, which tells you which Procmail
-folders have mail waiting in them; and @file{iswitchb.el}, a feature
-for incremental reading and completion of buffer names.
+folders have mail waiting in them.
 
 @item
-Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
+Torbjörn Einarsson wrote @file{f90.el}, a mode for Fortran 90 files.
 
 @item
 Tsugutomo Enami co-wrote the support for international character sets.
@@ -364,7 +368,7 @@ Kevin Gallagher rewrote and enhanced the EDT emulation, and wrote
 flow control.
 
 @item
-Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
+Fabián E. Gallina rewrote @file{python.el}, the major mode for the
 Python programming language used in Emacs 24.3 onwards.
 
 @item
@@ -372,7 +376,7 @@ Kevin Gallo added multiple-frame support for Windows NT and wrote
 @file{w32-win.el}, support functions for the MS-Windows window system.
 
 @item
-Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
+Juan León Lahoz García wrote @file{wdired.el}, a package for
 performing file operations by directly editing Dired buffers.
 
 @item
@@ -428,7 +432,7 @@ characters used by @TeX{} and net tradition.
 
 @item
 Bastien Guerry wrote @file{gnus-bookmark.el}, bookmark support for Gnus;
-as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.@:).
+as well as helping to maintain Org mode (q.v.).
 
 @item
 Henry Guillaume wrote @file{find-file.el}, a package to visit files
@@ -455,7 +459,7 @@ Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
 Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
 
 @item
-K.@: Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
+K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
 packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
 @file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
 appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
@@ -509,9 +513,9 @@ He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
 @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs;
 and implemented libxml2 support.
 Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
-Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
-Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
-Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
+Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
+Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
+Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
 Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi
 Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
 Gnus Manual}).
@@ -552,7 +556,7 @@ S/MIME and Sieve components; and @file{tls.el} and @file{starttls.el}
 for the Transport Layer Security protocol.
 
 @item
-Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
+Arne Jørgensen wrote @file{latexenc.el}, a package to
 automatically guess the correct coding system in @LaTeX{} files.
 
 @item
@@ -604,7 +608,7 @@ files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
 Emacs.
 
 @item
-Karel Klí@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
+Karel Klíč contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
 Security-Enhanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
 
 @item
@@ -616,7 +620,7 @@ Pavel Kobyakov wrote @file{flymake.el}, a minor mode for performing
 on-the-fly syntax checking.
 
 @item
-David M.@: Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
+David M. Koppelman wrote @file{hi-lock.el}, a minor mode for
 interactive automatic highlighting of parts of the buffer text.
 
 @item
@@ -629,12 +633,12 @@ menu support.
 
 @item
 Sebastian Kremer wrote @code{dired-mode}, with contributions by Lawrence
-R.@: Dodd.  He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
+R. Dodd.  He also wrote @file{ls-lisp.el}, a Lisp emulation of the
 @code{ls} command for platforms that don't have @code{ls} as a standard
 program.
 
 @item
-David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
+David KÃ¥gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
 easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
 
 @item
@@ -646,7 +650,7 @@ Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
 Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
 debug code written using David Gillespie's Common Lisp support; and
 @file{isearch.el}, Emacs's incremental search minor mode.  He also
-co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.@:).
+co-wrote @file{hideif.el} (q.v.).
 
 @item
 Karl Landstrom and Daniel Colascione wrote @file{js.el}, a mode for
@@ -672,7 +676,7 @@ Emacs Lisp programs.
 
 @item
 Lars Lindberg wrote @file{msb.el}, which provides more flexible menus
-for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.@:); and rewrote
+for buffer selection; co-wrote @file{imenu.el} (q.v.); and rewrote
 @file{dabbrev.el}, originally written by Don Morrison.
 
 @item
@@ -693,7 +697,7 @@ directory-local variables; and the @code{info-finder} feature that
 creates a virtual Info manual of package keywords.
 
 @item
-Károly L@H{o}rentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
+Károly Lőrentey wrote the ``multi-terminal'' code, which allows
 Emacs to run on graphical and text terminals simultaneously.
 
 @item
@@ -725,7 +729,7 @@ the display of the Emacs tool bar.  With Riccardo Murri he wrote
 Eric Ludlam wrote the Speedbar package; @file{checkdoc.el}, for checking
 doc strings in Emacs Lisp programs; @file{dframe.el}, providing
 dedicated frame support modes; @file{ezimage.el}, a generalized way to
-place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc; and
+place images over text; @file{chart.el} for drawing bar charts etc.; and
 the EIEIO (Enhanced Implementation of Emacs Interpreted Objects)
 package.  He was also the main author of the CEDET (Collection of Emacs
 Development Environment Tools) package.  Portions were also written by
@@ -751,11 +755,11 @@ maintained CC Mode from Emacs 22 onwards.
 Michael McNamara and Wilson Snyder wrote Verilog mode.
 
 @item
-Christopher J.@: Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
+Christopher J. Madsen wrote @file{decipher.el}, a package for cracking
 simple substitution ciphers.
 
 @item
-Neil M.@: Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
+Neil M. Mager wrote @file{appt.el}, functions to notify users of their
 appointments.  It finds appointments recorded in the diary files
 used by the @code{calendar} package.
 
@@ -789,6 +793,9 @@ mode-sensitive insertion of text into new files.
 @item
 Yukihiro Matsumoto and Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote Ruby-mode.
 
+@item
+Tomohiro Matsuyama wrote the native Elisp profiler.
+
 @item
 Thomas May wrote @file{blackbox.el}, a version of the traditional
 blackbox game.
@@ -806,13 +813,11 @@ command with its arguments.
 Richard Mlynarik wrote @file{cl-indent.el}, a package for indenting
 Common Lisp code; @file{ebuff-menu.el}, an ``electric'' browser for
 buffer listings; @file{ehelp.el}, bindings for browsing help screens;
-@file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
-used in mail messages and news articles; @file{terminal.el}, a
-terminal emulator for Emacs subprocesses; and @file{yow.el}, an
-essential utility.
+and @file{rfc822.el}, a parser for E-mail addresses in the RFC-822 format,
+used in mail messages and news articles.
 
 @item
-Gerd Moellmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
+Gerd Möllmann was the Emacs maintainer from the beginning of Emacs 21
 development until the release of 21.1.  He wrote the new display
 engine used from Emacs 21 onwards, and the asynchronous timers
 facility.  He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
@@ -822,7 +827,7 @@ facility.  He also wrote @code{ebrowse}, the C@t{++} browser;
 and @file{rx.el}, a regular expression constructor.
 
 @item
-Stefan Monnier was the Emacs co-maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards.  He added
+Stefan Monnier was the Emacs (co-)maintainer from Emacs 23 onwards.  He added
 support for Arch and Subversion to VC, re-wrote much of the Emacs server
 to use the built-in networking primitives, and re-wrote the abbrev and
 minibuffer completion code for Emacs 23.  He also wrote @code{PCL-CVS},
@@ -855,7 +860,7 @@ Erik Naggum wrote the time-conversion functions.  He also wrote
 @file{parse-time.el}, for parsing time strings.
 
 @item
-Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.@:), and wrote
+Takahashi Naoto co-wrote @file{quail.el} (q.v.), and wrote
 @file{robin.el}, another input method.
 
 @item
@@ -877,7 +882,7 @@ and @code{winterm} terminal emulators; and @file{vc-dir.el}, displaying
 the status of version-controlled directories.
 
 @item
-Hrvoje Niksic wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
+Hrvoje Nikšić wrote @file{savehist.el}, for saving the minibuffer
 history between Emacs sessions.
 
 @item
@@ -904,7 +909,7 @@ Takaaki Ota wrote @file{table.el}, a package for creating and editing
 embedded text-based tables.
 
 @item
-Pieter E.@: J.@: Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
+Pieter E. J. Pareit wrote @file{mixal-mode.el}, an editing mode for
 the MIX assembly language.
 
 @item
@@ -920,7 +925,7 @@ Damon Anton Permezel wrote @file{hanoi.el}, an animated demonstration of
 the ``Towers of Hanoi'' puzzle.
 
 @item
-William M.@: Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
+William M. Perry wrote @file{mailcap.el} (with Lars Magne
 Ingebrigtsen), a MIME media types configuration facility;
 @file{mwheel.el}, a package for supporting mouse wheels; co-wrote (with
 Dave Love) @file{socks.el}, a Socks v5 client; and developed the URL
@@ -949,7 +954,7 @@ support for Wyse 50 terminals.  He also co-wrote @file{compile.el}
 (q.v.@:) and @file{ada-stmt.el}.
 
 @item
-Richard L.@: Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
+Richard L. Pieri wrote @file{pop3.el}, a Post Office Protocol (RFC
 1460) interface for Emacs.
 
 @item
@@ -957,7 +962,7 @@ Fred Pierresteguy and Paul Reilly made Emacs work with X Toolkit
 widgets.
 
 @item
-François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
+François Pinard, Greg McGary, and Bruno Haible wrote @file{po.el},
 support for PO translation files.
 
 @item
@@ -972,12 +977,12 @@ minor mode for displaying a ruler in the header line; and
 structures.
 
 @item
-Francesco A.@: Potorti wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
+Francesco A. Potortì wrote @file{cmacexp.el}, providing a command which
 runs the C preprocessor on a region of a file and displays the results.
 He also expanded and redesigned the @code{etags} program.
 
 @item
-Michael D.@: Prange and Steven A.@: Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
+Michael D. Prange and Steven A. Wood wrote @file{fortran.el}, a mode
 for editing Fortran code.
 
 @item
@@ -985,7 +990,7 @@ Ashwin Ram wrote @file{refer.el}, commands to look up references in
 bibliography files by keyword.
 
 @item
-Eric S.@: Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
+Eric S. Raymond wrote @file{vc.el}, an interface to the RCS and SCCS
 source code version control systems, with Paul Eggert; @file{gud.el},
 a package for running source-level debuggers like GDB and SDB in
 Emacs; @file{asm-mode.el}, a mode for editing assembly language code;
@@ -1001,14 +1006,14 @@ used in Emacs Lisp library files; and code to set and make use of the
 which each lisp function loaded into Emacs came.
 
 @item
-Edward M.@: Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
+Edward M. Reingold wrote the calendar and diary support,
 with contributions from Stewart Clamen (@file{cal-mayan.el}), Nachum
 Dershowitz (@file{cal-hebrew.el}), Paul Eggert (@file{cal-dst.el}),
 Steve Fisk (@file{cal-tex.el}), Michael Kifer (@file{cal-x.el}), Lara
-Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B.@: Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
+Rios (@file{cal-menu.el}), and Denis B. Roegel (@file{solar.el}).
 Andy Oram contributed to its documentation.  Reingold also contributed
 to @file{tex-mode.el}, a mode for editing @TeX{} files, as did William
-F.@: Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
+F. Schelter, Dick King, Stephen Gildea, Michael Prange, and Jacob
 Gore.
 
 @item
@@ -1027,7 +1032,7 @@ VT line of terminals.
 
 @item
 Nick Roberts wrote @file{t-mouse.el}, for mouse support in text
-terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB.
+terminals; and @file{gdb-ui.el}, a graphical user interface to GDB@.
 Together with Dmitry Dzhus, he wrote @file{gdb-mi.el}, the successor to
 @file{gdb-ui.el}.
 
@@ -1039,7 +1044,7 @@ into ``handwriting''.
 Markus Rost wrote @file{cus-test.el}, a testing framework for customize.
 
 @item
-Guillermo J.@: Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
+Guillermo J. Rozas wrote @file{scheme.el}, a mode for editing Scheme and
 DSSSL code.
 
 @item
@@ -1055,15 +1060,14 @@ contributed extensively to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.
 
 @item
 Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote Emacs 19's floating-point support (including
-@file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}), and @file{sup-mouse.el},
-support for the Supdup mouse on lisp machines.
+@file{float-sup.el} and @file{floatfns.c}).
 
 @item
 Kevin Ryde wrote @file{info-xref.el}, a library for checking
 references in Info files.
 
 @item
-James B.@: Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
+James B. Salem and Brewster Kahle wrote @file{completion.el}, providing
 dynamic word completion.
 
 @item
@@ -1087,15 +1091,12 @@ Michael Schmidt and Tom Perrine wrote @file{modula2.el}, a mode for
 editing Modula-2 code, based on work by Mick Jordan and Peter Robinson.
 
 @item
-Ronald S.@: Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
+Ronald S. Schnell wrote @file{dunnet.el}, a text adventure game.
 
 @item
 Philippe Schnoebelen wrote @file{gomoku.el}, a Go Moku game played
 against Emacs; and @file{mpuz.el}, a multiplication puzzle.
 
-@item
-Rainer Schoepf contributed to Alpha and OSF1 support.
-
 @item
 Jan Schormann wrote @file{solitaire.el}, an implementation of the
 Solitaire game.
@@ -1107,15 +1108,11 @@ for interactively running an SQL interpreter in an Emacs buffer;
 @file{cus-theme.el}, an interface for custom themes; @file{master.el}, a
 package for making a buffer @samp{master} over another; and
 @file{spam-stat.el}, for statistical detection of junk email.  He also
-wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.@:).
+wrote parts of the IRC client ERC (q.v.).
 
 @item
 Randal Schwartz wrote @file{pp.el}, a pretty-printer for lisp objects.
 
-@item
-Oliver Seidel wrote @file{todo-mode.el}, a package for maintaining
-@file{TODO} list files.
-
 @item
 Manuel Serrano wrote the Flyspell package, which does spell checking
 as you type.
@@ -1158,7 +1155,7 @@ David Smith wrote @file{ielm.el}, a mode for interacting with the Emacs
 Lisp interpreter as a subprocess.
 
 @item
-Paul D.@: Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
+Paul D. Smith wrote @file{snmp-mode.el}.
 
 @item
 William Sommerfeld wrote @file{scribe.el}, a mode for editing Scribe
@@ -1200,7 +1197,7 @@ cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
 Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
 
 @item
-Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
+Kim F. Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
 process support, and networking support. He also wrote
 @file{bindat.el}, a package for encoding and decoding binary data;
 CUA mode, which allows Emacs to emulate the standard CUA key
@@ -1221,7 +1218,7 @@ Olaf Sylvester wrote @file{bs.el}, a package for manipulating Emacs
 buffers.
 
 @item
-Tibor @v{S}imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
+Tibor Å imko and Milan Zamazal wrote @file{slovak.el}, support for
 editing text in Slovak language.
 
 @item
@@ -1274,12 +1271,12 @@ for Gnus; and @file{timezone.el}, providing functions for dealing with
 time zones.
 
 @item
-Neil W.@: Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
+Neil W. Van Dyke wrote @file{webjump.el}, a ``hot links'' package.
 
 @item
 Didier Verna wrote @file{rect.el}, a package of functions for
 operations on rectangle regions of text.  He also contributed to Gnus
-(q.v.@:).
+(q.v.).
 
 @item
 Joakim Verona implemented ImageMagick support.
@@ -1328,7 +1325,7 @@ the shift key and motion commands; and @file{dos-fns.el}, functions
 for use under MS-DOS.
 
 @item
-Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.@:);
+Joe Wells wrote the original version of @file{apropos.el} (q.v.);
 @file{resume.el}, support for processing command-line arguments after
 resuming a suspended Emacs job; and @file{mail-extr.el}, a package for
 extracting names and addresses from mail headers, with contributions
@@ -1342,12 +1339,12 @@ mode for editing VHDL source code.
 John Wiegley wrote @file{align.el}, a set of commands for aligning text
 according to regular-expression based rules; @file{isearchb.el} for fast
 buffer switching; @file{timeclock.el}, a package for keeping track of
-time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
+time spent on projects; the Bahá'í calendar support;
 @file{pcomplete.el}, a programmable completion facility;
 @file{remember.el}, a mode for jotting down things to remember;
 @file{eudcb-mab.el}, an address book backend for the Emacs Unified
 Directory Client; and @code{eshell}, a command shell implemented
-entirely in Emacs Lisp.  He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.@:).
+entirely in Emacs Lisp.  He also contributed to Org mode (q.v.).
 
 @item
 Mike Williams wrote @file{thingatpt.el}, a library of functions for
@@ -1358,16 +1355,16 @@ Roland Winkler wrote @file{proced.el}, a system process editor.
 
 @item
 Bill Wohler wrote MH-E, the Emacs interface to the MH mail system;
-making use of earlier work by James R.@: Larus.  Satyaki Das, Peter S.@:
-Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C.@: Honig also wrote various
+making use of earlier work by James R. Larus.  Satyaki Das, Peter S.
+Galbraith, Stephen Gildea, and Jeffrey C. Honig also wrote various
 MH-E components.
 
 @item
-Dale R.@: Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
+Dale R. Worley wrote @file{emerge.el}, a package for interactively
 merging two versions of a file.
 
 @item
-Francis J.@: Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
+Francis J. Wright wrote @file{woman.el}, a package for browsing
 manual pages without the @code{man} command.
 
 @item
@@ -1425,13 +1422,13 @@ messages; @file{rfc1843.el}, an HZ decoding package;
 other Gnus components.
 
 @item
-Ian T.@: Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
+Ian T. Zimmerman wrote @file{gametree.el}.
 
 @item
 Reto Zimmermann wrote @file{vera-mode.el}.
 
 @item
-Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
+Neal Ziring and Felix S. T. Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
 VI text editor.
 
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