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 46:2, the TUG'25 proceedings, has been mailed to current TUG members; it is also available online and from the TUG store. Whole-day videos for TUG'25 are available; videos for invidual talks will be posted when available. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 46:1 is now publicly available.
- TeX Live 2025 and MacTeX 2025 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN (TL, MacTeX).
Upcoming events (meeting list)
- GuIT 2025, Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025.
- Journeé GUTenberg 2025 annual meeting, École normale supérieure, Paris, November 8, 2025.
- GUTenberg general assembly, online, November 16, 2025 at 3 p.m.
- GUTenberg
Exposés mensuels, online video presentations, in French:
- December 4, 2025, Valentin Dao will give a presentation on his intexgral package and expl3 syntax.
- January 8, 2026, Jean Abou Samra will give a presentation on Lilypond.
- DANTE spring meeting, March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH, Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
- EuroBachoTeX 2026, in Bachotek, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2026.
- OSSConf 2026, July 1-3, 2026, at the University of Žilina, Slovakia, will have a dedicated TeX+R session. The conference will be multilingual.
- ConTeXt Meeting 2026: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026, Theme: “Focussing”. (Other topics also welcome!)
- GUTenberg: Exposés mensuels, online, September 10, 2025. Videoconference, in French, by Didier Verna on “Traitement des problèmes de similarité dans la justification de paragraphe : une extension du Knuth-Plass”.
- TUG 2025,
Hyatt Regency,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India, July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday),
with a LaTeX developers' workshop
on Thursday, July 17.
The YouTube Live stream is available. Videos for individual talks will be available as soon as possible. - 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 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
- citation-style-language
- scaletextbullet
- rpgicons
- stocksize
- reledmac
- xkeyval
- memoir
- LydType
- erewhon-math
- xcharter-math
- kpfonts-otf
- MusiXTeX
- terminalcode
- tikzcalendarnotes
- fontawesome7
- picinpar
- luatexja
- JuliaMono
- tikzquests
- yfonts-otf
- mitthesis
- pkginfograb
- latex-via-exemplos
- scontents
- enumext
- notoCJKsc
- markdown
- latex-base
- tagpdf
- odsfile
- chemfig