The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a membership-based not-for-profit organization, founded in 1980, for anyone who uses the TeX typesetting system created by Donald Knuth and/or is interested in typography and font design.
Join or renew with TUG (trial memberships available for new members) to support use and development of TeX and friends. All TUG memberships are for the calendar year, and include all benefits for the year no matter when you join.
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News
(blogs)
- The The 2024 version of the Great Tikzlings Christmas Extravaganza has just been released. It presents mariachi marmots and flower power in San Francisco, has a look at the upcoming TUG 2025 Annual Conference, reports on the LaTeX tagging project, takes a photo at a well known location, discovers the hitherto unknown Batbäar, and contains many other Christmas surprises. Watch it now on Vimeo!
- TUGboat 45:3, has been mailed to current TUG members; it is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 45:2 is now publicly available. Early submissions for the next issue are welcome and encouraged; the deadline is March 21, 2025.
- 2025 is an election year for TUG. Nomination forms for board positions and president are available. Submission deadline: 1 March 2025, 7am US/Pacific.
- New book reviews: LaTeX Cookbook, second edition, by Stefan Kottwitz, reviewed by Uwe Ziegenhagen; and Text and Math Into LaTeX, sixth edition, by George Grätzer, reviewed by Jim Hefferon.
- TeX Live 2024 and MacTeX 2024 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN (TL, MacTeX). 2024 is the first year without distributing a DVD as a general membership benefit: more info.
Upcoming events (meeting list)
- Face/Interface 2025, Stanford University, January 17-18, 2025. This conference is about global type design human-computer interaction, and brings together scholars, designers, technologists, and more, of all levels of experience. Several talks from the 2023 conference are available online.
- TUG 2025, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday), probably with LaTeX workshop(s) on Thursday, July 17. The registration form and more information will be posted when available.
- ConTeXt Meeting 2025: Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
- Journée GUTenberg 2024 (annual meeting), Paris, France, November 16, 2024.
- Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century: From graphemes to knowledge, Venice, Italy, and online, October 23-25, 2024. Donald Knuth will be a keynote speaker and hold an “all questions answered” session. The presentation proposal deadline is June 15, 2024; see the conference web site for details.
- arXiv Accessibility Forum 2024, online, September 3-13, 2024: list of sessions. The Forum is fully remote, free, and open to all. Specifically related to TeX: the discussion on September 12 about HTML papers on arXiv, with Norbert Preining, Deyan Ginev, and others. Videos for the entire forum are available.
- DocEng2024 will include a talk by Frank Mittelbach et al. on accessible LaTeX, and by Didier Verna on the Knuth-Plass algorithm (as at TUG'24). San Jose, California, August 20-23.
- BachoTeX 2024, in Bachotek, Poland, May 1-5, 2024. This year's theme: “composed thoughts”.
- DANTE e.V., 66. annual meeting (DANTE 2024), April 4-6, 2024, in Weimar.
- DEIMS2024, the 5th International Workshop on Digitization and E-Inclusion in Mathematics and Science 2024, will be a hybrid event taking place 15-17 February 2024, online and at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan. Accessibility of STEM material is the focus, and several speakers are prominent in the (La)TeX community. Registration form; deadlines 15 January 2024 (in person) and 1 February 2024 (online; free of charge).
TUG is a not-for-profit organization by, for, and of its members, also representing the interests of TeX users worldwide. If you use any TeX-related programs (TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Metafont, MetaPost, Texinfo, et al.), please consider joining TUG (or another TeX user group). Memberships and donations are tax-deductible in the US.
TUG membership benefits include our journal TUGboat (available both in print and online). TUG also runs an annual TeX conference, and supports updates to the TeX Collection software: TeX Live, MacTeX, snapshot of CTAN, among other activities.
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is the primary repository for TeX-related software on the Internet. CTAN has many thousands of items; its package list, topic cloud, and CTAN search page can help you find what you need.
Latest CTAN
updates
- bangorcsthesis
- clicks
- tuple
- latex-via-exemplos
- faq-fr-gutenberg
- tutodoc
- changelog
- beamertheme-light
- functional
- lshort-zh-cn
- listparskip
- markdown
- pdfjam
- jsonparse
- MPchess
- TikZbricks
- lt3luabridge
- luamplib
- bib2gls
- linearregression
- lucida-otf
- anima
- expltools
- iftex
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- TikZlings
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- TikZmarmots
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