Jul25 news: Cain interview, TUG'25/India, conferences, TUGboat, CTAN

[TeX Users Group]

Hello TUG members,

A new interview has been posted, with Alan Cain, author of Form & Number. 
The interview was conducted by Jim Hefferon:
  https://tug.org/interviews/cain.pdf

The book is freely available in various formats:
  https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large

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This is the month for the TUG 2025 conference!  It will take place in
Trivandrum, Kerala, India, hosted by TeXFolio, from July 18-20 (Fri-Sun):
  https://tug.org/tug2025/

The conference program:
  https://tug.org/tug2025/program.html

The talks will be streamed online on the TUG YouTube channel:
  https://www.youtube.com/c/texusersgroup
There is no charge for online participation, but donations are
greatly appreciated:
  https://tug.org/donate

The venue is the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Trivandrum:
  https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/trvrt-hyatt-regency-trivandrum

If you'd like to attend, please register and book your hotel as soon as
possible. Conference information and the registration form:
  https://tug.org/tug2025/register.html

There will also be a LaTeX developers' workshop on tagged PDF on
Thursday, July 17, and a calligraphy demonstration and workshop on
Sunday afternoon, July 20, by renowned Malayalam calligrapher Narayana
Bhattathiri. Both are free of charge.
  https://tug.org/tug2025/workshop.html

Finally, there will be free excursions on the first two evenings, a
night-time tour of the city and a classical music/dance performance.
The conference banquet will be on the third evening.

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Other upcoming conferences this year:
- ConTeXt Meeting 2025, in Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

- GuIT 2025, in Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025.
  https://www.guitex.org/home/en/meeting

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TUGboat 46:1 was mailed around May 1. If you haven't received your copy
yet, please email the TUG office at office at tug.org. We have been
informed that unfortunately quite a few recipients were required to pay
customs duty or other fees to receive it; we apologize for this. We are
exploring alternative mailing methods, as always, but there is no
guaranteed way to avoid import fees in today's world of international
mailing. So, we are also happy to refund fees paid.

As always, we welcome submissions for the upcoming issues.
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/

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New CTAN packages in June 2025 (all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):

- aeskwadraat, package catalogue of the A-Eskwadraat association
- citeright, specify accurate natbib citations for diverse naming conventions
- eoldef, define commands which absorb the whole source line as arguments
- farbe, color management (conversion, names) for LuaTeX implemented in Lua
- hideproofs, starred proof environment that hides proofs in draft mode
- liturgy-cw, create Common Worship style documents
- multinotes, typesetting multilingual lecture notes and exercise sheets
- quantum-chemistry-bonn, consistent typsetting for quantum chemistry
- quantumcubemodel, representation of quantum states in the quantum cube model
- show-pdf-tags, extract PDF tags from tagged PDF files
- sysuthesis, LaTeX thesis template for Sun Yat-sen University
- texgit, download, access, and potentially execute files from git
- tictactoe, drawing tic-tac-toe or Noughts and Crosses games
- tokmap, iterate over a token list expandably, without dropping spaces or
          braced groups
- visualtoks, typeset TeXbook-style visualisations of token lists

Information about any CTAN package is available at
  ctan.org/pkg/PACKAGENAME

Happy \TeX{}ing,
Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board