From tug-news at tug.org Thu Jan 26 01:44:53 2012 From: tug-news at tug.org (TeX Users Group) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:44:53 GMT Subject: [tex-announce] Jan 2012 TUG news: group memberships, TUGboat, book review, conferences Message-ID: <201201260044.q0Q0ir90007932@tug.org> Dear TeX users, Happy 2012 to all TeX users (and everybody else, though they're not likely to be reading this)! This year, TUG is offering a new membership category, called group membership. It includes up to four individual memberships for $200 (thus providing a discount), with electronic access for all four members and one physical copy of TUGboat and software, as well as acknowledgment online. This is perfect for small departments or research groups. http://tug.org/join.html has all the info. More news: - TUGboat 32:3 has shipped and should be in your mailbox. The deadline for the next issue is March 15. Articles on any aspect of TeX and friends are always welcomed. http://tug.org/TUGboat/ - Review of David Kadavy's _Design for hackers: reverse-engineering beauty_ by Boris Veytsman now online http://tug.org/books/#reviews - TUG 2012 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from July 16 through July 18 at the Omni Parker House. The discount code for our group's hotel reservations is now available; see the web site for that and other info. http://tug.org/tug2012/ - Other upcoming TeX conferences in 2012: April 29-May 3 - BachoTeX 2012 (Bachotek, Poland) http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2012 August 23-26 - TeXperience 2012 (Beskydy, Czech Republic) http://katedry.osu.cz/kma/TeXperience2012/ October 8-12 - EuroTeX 2012 and the Sixth ConTeXt User Meeting (Breskens, The Netherlands) http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ Steve Peter (President) on behalf of the TUG Board http://www.tug.org/ From tug-news at tug.org Fri Mar 2 19:00:48 2012 From: tug-news at tug.org (TeX Users Group) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:00:48 -0800 Subject: [tex-announce] Feb 2012 TUG news: BachoTeX and conferences, book reviews and discounts Message-ID: <201203021800.q22I0mwi017947@freefriends.org> Dear TeX users, Was it my imagination, or did that February seem longer than normal? Now that we've arrived in March, let's get up to speed on what's going on in the TeX Users Group. - GUST is celebrating 20 years with a special BachoTeX. See the call for papers: http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2012/cfp - Review of Jean-luc Doumont's _Trees, maps, and theorems_ by Pavneet Arora now online: http://tug.org/books/#reviews - TUGboat needs your article/review/blurb/musing. The deadline for the next issue is March 15. Articles on any aspect of TeX and friends are always welcomed. http://tug.org/TUGboat/ - RIT Press/RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press is offering 10%-off to TUG members for a limited time. The code may be used on one order and is valid through May 31, 2012. The exclusive members-only discount code is available in the members area: https://www.tug.org/members More news: - TUG 2012 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from July 16 through July 18 at the Omni Parker House. The discount code for our group's hotel reservations is available; see the web site for that and other info. http://tug.org/tug2012/ - Other upcoming TeX conferences in 2012: April 29-May 3 - BachoTeX 2012 (Bachotek, Poland) http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2012 August 23-26 - TeXperience 2012 (Beskydy, Czech Republic) http://katedry.osu.cz/kma/TeXperience2012/ October 8-12 - EuroTeX 2012 and the Sixth ConTeXt User Meeting (Breskens, The Netherlands) http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ Steve Peter (President) on behalf of the TUG Board http://www.tug.org/ From tug-news at tug.org Mon Apr 16 02:17:25 2012 From: tug-news at tug.org (TeX Users Group) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:17:25 -0700 Subject: [tex-announce] April 2012 TUG news: Lucida OpenType, TUGboat, bursary, conferences Message-ID: <201204160017.q3G0HPNM017425@freefriends.org> Dear TeX users, Spring has come early to many parts of North America, and as you watch the blossoms or reach for the allergy pills, here's what's going on at the TeX Users Group. - We are pleased to be able to offer the Lucida fonts in OpenType format. The Type 1 Lucida fonts are frozen and will not be developed further, while the OpenType fonts continue to be actively maintained and developed. For instance, the OpenType fonts support more languages, with a variety of visual improvements to their glyphs and spacing. Lucida OpenType is also one of the few font sets currently supporting OpenType mathematical typesetting, and (uniquely, to our knowledge) provides a bold math variant. The regular-weight Lucida OpenType math font includes a newly-designed script alphabet design. - The latest issue of TUGboat has gone to the printer and should be in your hands soon. As always, TUGboat needs your article/review/blurb/ musing for the next issue. Articles on any aspect of TeX and friends are always welcomed. http://tug.org/TUGboat/ - Packages for inclusion in TeX Live 2012 should be submitted to CTAN soon. Approximate deadline for inclusion in this year's distribution is May 10. http://tug.org/texlive/ - The deadline for the bursary to the 2012 annual meeting is approaching. You have until April 30 to apply. http://tug.org/bursary/ - Speaking of which, TUG 2012 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from July 16 through July 18 at the Omni Parker House. The registration form, discount code for our group's hotel reservations and other information is at: http://tug.org/tug2012/ - GUST is celebrating 20 years with a special BachoTeX at the end of April. http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2012 - Other upcoming TeX conferences in 2012: August 23-26 - TeXperience 2012 (Beskydy, Czech Republic) http://katedry.osu.cz/kma/TeXperience2012/ October 8-12 - EuroTeX 2012 and the Sixth ConTeXt User Meeting (Breskens, The Netherlands) http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ Steve Peter (President) on behalf of the TUG Board http://www.tug.org/ From tug-news at tug.org Thu May 17 23:53:44 2012 From: tug-news at tug.org (TeX Users Group) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 21:53:44 +0000 Subject: [tex-announce] May 2012 TUG news: TUG'12, ABCDE, Lucida, TUGboat, TL'12 Message-ID: <201205172153.q4HLri7m010056@freefriends.org> Dear TeX users, The Ides of May is upon us. This month, I'd like to ask for your help on a couple of fronts: If you've ever been thinking about sharing your experiences with TeX by speaking at a conference (and who hasn't), now's your chance! We still have slots available for speakers. The deadline is May 21. Send title and abstract to tug2012 at tug.org. (And even if you don't want to present, please join us in Boston anyway. See below.) Also, there are a number of worthy tasks looking for volunteers. Karl Berry maintains a list of projects in the TeX community looking for help: http://www.tug.org/help More news: - New corrected printings of Computers and Typesetting are (or will be) available. Donald E. Knuth writes: "...the books themselves are significantly better in hundreds of small ways. I went through every page very carefully and introduced many refinements, which have made me extremely happy with the result. I'm now able to replace my personal desk copies, in which hundreds of handwritten notes had been scrawled since the Millennium edition came out, by fresh versions that are essentially perfect (as far as I know). This is especially true of Volume B, because important updates to the TeX software that were made in 2002 and 2007 have never before been available in print." See the section entitled Spiffy New Printings at http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html - We are pleased to be able to offer the Lucida fonts in OpenType format. The Type 1 Lucida fonts are frozen and will not be developed further, while the OpenType fonts continue to be actively maintained and developed. The OpenType fonts support more languages, with a variety of visual improvements to their glyphs and spacing. Lucida OpenType is also one of the few font sets currently supporting OpenType mathematical typesetting, and (uniquely, to our knowledge) provides a bold math variant. The regular-weight Lucida OpenType math font includes a newly-designed script alphabet design. http://tug.org/lucida - TUGboat 33:1 has been mailed to members. As always, TUGboat needs your article/review/blurb/ musing for the next issue. Articles on any aspect of TeX and friends are always welcomed. http://tug.org/TUGboat/ - TeX Live '11 is now frozen, which means the pretesting for TL'12 has started. Come and give it a try if you're interested. http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html - As previously mentioned, TUG 2012 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from July 16 through July 18 at the Omni Parker House. The discount code for our group's hotel reservations, registration forms, and other information is at: http://tug.org/tug2012/ - Other upcoming TeX conferences in 2012: August 23-26 - TeXperience 2012 (Beskydy, Czech Republic) http://katedry.osu.cz/kma/TeXperience2012/ October 8-12 - EuroTeX 2012 and the Sixth ConTeXt User Meeting (Breskens, The Netherlands) http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ Steve Peter (President) on behalf of the TUG Board http://www.tug.org/