About PGFPlots: Preliminaries
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2.4Acknowledgements
I thank God for all hours of enjoyed programming. I thank Pascal Wolkotte and Nick Papior Andersen for their programming efforts
and contributions as part of the development team. My thanks go to Francesco Poli for implementing the lua algorithm
for contour lua. I thank Jürnjakob Dugge for his contribution of
hist/density, matlab scripts for graphics, excellent user forum help and helpful bug reports. I thank Stefan Tibus, who contributed the
\addplot shell
feature. I thank Tom Cashman for the contribution of the
reverse legend feature. Special thanks go to
Stefan Pinnow for his continuous efforts to test pgfplots, to discuss requirements, to request
features and bug fixes which lead to numerous quality improvements, and to adapt and integrate the
colorbrewer library. Furthermore, I thank Prof. Schweitzer for
many fruitful discussions and his initial encouragement to start such a package. Thanks to Dr. Meine for his ideas and
suggestions. Special thanks go to Markus Böhning for proof-reading all the manuals of pgf,
pgfplots, and PgfplotsTable. Thanks to Vincent A. Traag for bringing
colorbrewer colors to pgfplots. Thanks as
well to the many international contributors who provided feature requests or identified bugs or simply improvements of the
manual!
Last but not least, I thank Till Tantau and Mark Wibrow for their excellent graphics (and more) package
pgf and TikZ, which is the base of pgfplots.