Dec23 news: TUGboat, meetings, CTAN

[TeX Users Group]

Hello TeX users,

TUGboat 44:3 has been mailed and should be in most people's mailboxes
soon, for those getting physical issues. If you haven't received it yet,
please give it another couple of weeks (holiday mailing delays are
unavoidable) and then contact the TUG office (office at tug.org) for a
replacement if needed. The complete issue is available online to TUG
members, as usual.
https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents44-3.html

Early submissions for the next TUGboat (45:1) are welcome and encouraged,
as always. The deadline is March 24, 2024. Author info:
https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html


Upcoming meetings:

- TUG 2024 will take place in Prague (Czech Republic), probably in late
July of 2024, with Tom Hejda leading the local organization.  When
available, dates and all else will be posted at https://tug.org/tug2024/
and other usual places.

- the next DANTE annual meeting will take place in Ilmtal-Weinstrasse
(Germany) in April 2024. When available, info will be posted at
https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2024/

- BachoTeX 2024 will take place in Bachotek (Poland) from May 1-5, 2024.
This year's theme is ``composed thoughts''.
Deadline for proposals/abstracts: March 24, 2024.
https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2024-en

- the next ConTeXt annual meeting will take place in Lutten/Hardenberg,
(The Netherlands), August 17-23, 2024.
https://meeting.contextgarden.net/


Some recent new packages on CTAN (https://ctan.org):
- affilauthor, tag author and affiliation information in a key-value style.
- argumentation, abstract argumentation frameworks in TikZ.
- autotype, automatic language-specific typography, including weighted
  hyphenation (for German).
- cidarticle, class for Commentarii informaticae didacticae (CID).
- cjs-rcs-article, article class for The Canadian Journal of Statistics.
- coloredbelts, insert colored belts (vector format) in documents.
- gitinfo-lua, git project information in LaTeX.
- ipsum, multilingual placeholder text.
- latex2pydata, write data to file in Python literal format.
- litetable, class schedule template with colorful course blocks.
- notebeamer, template for printing presentations on notepaper.
- pdfannotations, annotate PDF slides.
- pmdraw, draw elements of the partition monoids.
- polyhedra, TikZ package for drawing polyhedra.
- q-and-a, typesetting Q&A-style conversations.
- quran-en, English translation extensions to the quran package.
- quran-id, Indonesian translation extensions to the quran package.
- sim-os-menus, 'terminal', 'menu', etc. images as in an OS.
- texblend, compile segments of LaTeX documents.
- trivialpursuit, board game image made with TikZ.
- vectorlogos, PDF images (GeoGebra, Emacs, Scratch, ...) with inline support.

Happy TeXing,
Karl Berry (on behalf of the TUG board)