History of the Canonical Csound Reference Manual

This manual is a product of the Csound community. The current version of the manual is based on the Alternative Csound Reference Manual, developed by Kevin Conder using DocBook/SGML. This was in itself based on the Official Csound Reference Manual (last known address: http://www.lakewoodsound.com/csound/hypertext/manual.htm), which was maintained by David M. Boothe.

In the winter of 2004, the manual was converted to DocBook/XML by Steven Yi to allow for more people to be able to compile and maintain the manual. The manual continues to be a community run project that depends on the contributions of developers and users to help refine the coverage and accuracy of its contents. All contributions are welcome and appreciated.

Written by Steven Yi, January 2005.