## 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 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, and more contributions are listed on the project's Members page.

### Libraries

The following libraries are dependencies of novelWriter:

Qt5 by Qt Company
PyQt5 by Riverbank Computing
lxml by Martijn Faassen
Enchant by Dom Lachowicz
PyEnchant by Dimitri Merejkowsky

### Assets

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

Typicons icons by Stephen Hutchings (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tomorrow syntax themes by Chris Kempson (MIT License)
Owl syntax themes by Sarah Drasner (MIT License)
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.