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 <!-- <h2><a name="about">About Proof General</a></h2> -->
 <h2>The Proof General project</h2>
 <p>
-The Proof General project was initiated in 1994 (under the name of
-"lego-mode") and coordinated until October 1998 by Thomas
-Kleymann.  Since October 1998, David Aspinall has been in charge of
-Proof General. 
-<p>
-<p>The project has benefited from funding by <a
-href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/logic_and_proof/attbpa.html">EPSRC</a>
-and the <a
-href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/types_bra/index.html">EC</a>.
+The forefather of Proof General was LEGO mode, begun by Thomas
+Kleymann in 1994 as an Emacs-based front end for LEGO similar to <a
+href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/da/Isamode">Isamode</a>.  Later,
+implementations of proof-by-pointing and script management were added,
+and the code was made generic.  
 </p>
 
 <p>
-The generic base for Proof General was developed at the
+This generic base for Proof General was developed at the
 <a href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/lfcs">LFCS</a> by Kleymann, Sequeira, 
 Goguen and Aspinall (in order of appearance). 
 It follows some of the ideas used in 
 <a href="http://www.inria.fr/croap/">Project CROAP</a>.
-</p>
-<p>
+
 The authors and current maintainers of the various instantiations of
 Proof General are mentioned on the 
 <?php link_root("main","front page.") ?>
 </p>
+<p> 
+The Proof General project was coordinated until October 1998 by Thomas
+Kleymann, and since then by David Aspinall.
+The project has benefited from
+funding by <a
+href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/logic_and_proof/attbpa.html">EPSRC</a>
+and the <a
+href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/research/types_bra/index.html">EC</a>.
+</p>
+
 <p>
 For more on the history of the development of
 Proof General, see the 
 <?php htmlshow("ProofGeneral/doc/ProofGeneral_1.html#SEC3","manual preface.","","html") ?>
 </p>
 
+
 <h2>Contact information</h2>
 
 <p>