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)
- 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. Submissions for the next issue are welcome and encouraged; the deadline was March 21, 2025, but submissions will be accepted for a couple more days.
- TeX Live 2025 and MacTeX 2025 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN (TL, MacTeX).
- TUG 2025 election results are available online and will be printed in the next TUGboat. There is no need for a ballot this year. Many thanks and congratulations to the continuing (as of the TUG 2025 conference) president Arthur Rosendahl, and new board members Doris Behrendt and Erik Nijenhuis. Many thanks also to Ross Moore, who is stepping down at the end of this term after many years of service.
Upcoming events (meeting list)
- BachoTeX 2025, in Bachotek, Poland, April 30-May 4, 2025. This year's theme: “TeX in education”. Call for papers.
- TUG 2025,
Hyatt Regency,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India, July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday),
with a LaTeX developers' workshop on Thursday, July 17.
Visa application is advised to be started as soon as possible.
Bursary application available (for financial assistance): deadline April 4.
Register for the conference: early bird deadline April 25.
Call for papers: submission deadline April 25.
Hotel reservations: deadline June 1; booking early is highly advisable. - ConTeXt Meeting 2025: Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
- DANTE e.V., 67. annual meeting (DANTE 2025), April 3-5, 2025, at Hochschule Darmstadt ( https://fbmn.h-da.de/detailansicht/dante-2025).
- 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.
- 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.
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
- rec-thy
- siunitx
- rit-fonts
- beamertheme-CleanEasy
- schulmathematik
- iaria-lite
- iaria
- cistercian
- l3backend-dev
- l3kernel-dev
- babel
- beamertheme-tcolorbox
- tex4ebook
- make4ht
- sttools
- xistercian
- qworld
- reledmac
- glossaries-extra
- glossaries
- UPmethodology
- TangramTikZ
- asymptote
- mohe-book
- olsak-misc
- latex-via-exemplos
- jsonparse
- raleway
- beamer-theme-albi
- ou-tma