# Credits

## Main Developer

* Veronica Berglyd Olsen (@vkbo)

## Contributors

* Concept: Marian Lückhof (@Number042)
* Internationalisation: Bruno Meneguello (@bkmeneguello)
* Setup and Packaging: Rachel Powers (@Ryex)

For other contributions, see the project's [Contributors](https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/graphs/contributors) page.

## Translations

The default language is English (UK) with English (US) as an option. These are the original
translators for the languages currently available:

* Dutch: Martijn van der Kleijn (@mvdkleijn)
* French: Jan Lüdke (@jyhelle)
* German: Myian (@heymyian)
* Italian: Riccardo Mangili
* Japanese: hebekeg (@hebekeg)
* Latin American Spanish: Tommy Marplatt (@tmarplatt)
* Norwegian: Veronica Berglyd Olsen (@vkbo)
* Portuguese: Bruno Meneguello (@bkmeneguello)
* Simplified Chinese: Qianzhi Long (@longqzh)

Additional larger translation contributions:

* French: Albert Aribaud (@aaribaud)

Translations are managed on [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/novelwriter), and more
contributions are listed on the project's [Members](https://crowdin.com/project/novelwriter/members) page.

## Libraries

The following libraries are dependencies of novelWriter:

* [Qt5](https://www.qt.io) by Qt Company
* [PyQt5](https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt) by Riverbank Computing
* [lxml](https://lxml.de) by Martijn Faassen
* [Enchant](https://abiword.github.io/enchant) by Dom Lachowicz
* [PyEnchant](https://pyenchant.github.io/pyenchant) by Dimitri Merejkowsky

## Assets

Some of the assets bundled with novelWriter were adapted from the following sources:

* [Typicons](https://github.com/stephenhutchings/typicons.font) icons by Stephen Hutchings (CC BY-SA 4.0)
* [Tomorrow](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16) syntax themes by Chris Kempson (MIT License)
* [Owl](https://github.com/sdras/night-owl-vscode-theme) syntax themes by Sarah Drasner (MIT License)
* [Solarized](https://github.com/altercation/solarized) themes by Ethan Schoonover (MIT License)

## Special Mentions

Additional thanks to @johnblommers who was an early user and who has provided a lot of very useful
feedback over the years.
