TUG 2021 – Presentations covering the TeX world. Typography & typesetting, fonts & design, publishing and more. The 42nd Annual Conference of the TeX Users Group
Call for Papers
Presentations are invited on the use of all members of the TeX ecosystem (LaTeX, plain TeX, ConTeXt, MetaPost, ...). Reports on new developments, publishing, or any topic related to the TeX world happily received.
Workshops
August 5
Workshops on Beginning LaTeX (in English, Spanish and Portuguese). ConTeXt, LaTeX in Amazon KDP, and fonts.
Speakers
August 6–8
We have some 25 lectures scheduled, with more to come.
Tours
August 5
We will visit the RIT Pressroom and use one of the presses with Amelia Hugill-Fontanel. Come see a 1482 print edition of Euclid’s Elementa Geometriae at UC Berkeley Rare Book Collection.
Interviews
We will be talking live with Norbert Preining about TeXLive and other issues, and with Frank Mittelbach. You will be able to join the conversation.
Register
It is free, and lots of talks will be in your time-zone. Register here
Speakers
Norbert Preining
Fujitsu Research Labs
Frank Mittelbach
LaTeX Project
Martin Ruckert
Hochschule München
Nicola Talbot
Dickimaw Books
Boris Veytsman
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
George Mason University
TeX Users Group
Sue DeMeritt
IDA-CCR La Jolla
Cheryl Ponchin
IDA-CCR Princeton
Alexánder Borbón
Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Matheus Rocha
Books In Bytes
Paulo Ney de Souza
University of California, Berkeley
Emílio Kavamura
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel
Rochester Institute of Technology
Joseph Wright
LaTeX Project
Ulrike Fischer
LaTeX Project
Marcel Krüger
LaTeX Project
Paulo Cereda
The Island of TeX
Joaquín Ataz López
Universidad de Murcia
Ross Moore
Macquaire University
LaTeX Support
Overleaf
Dave Crossland
Google Fonts
Nico Jimenez
Mathpix
David Faulds
University of California, Berkeley
Jerzy Ludwichowski
Polish TeX Users Group, GUST
samcarter
Interviews
We will be talking live with Norbert Preining about TeXLive and other issues, and with Frank Mittelbach. You will be able to join the conversation.
Norbert Preining
Fujitsu Research Labs
Frank Mittelbach
LaTeX Project
Workshops/Tours
Thursday August 5, 2021
Workshops and Tours are FREE and open to all attendees. No signup is required. An email with access links will be sent to all attendees.
Beginning LaTeX
Sue DeMeritt and Cheryl Ponchin
An introduction to LaTeX in 12 modules.
Introducción a LaTeX (Spanish)
Alexánder Borbón
An introduction to LaTeX in Spanish, by the author of one of the most popular guides to LaTeX.
How to make a logo/symbol for a font
Matheus Rocha
Learn how to create a new symbol and make an OpenType font for your logo to be used in TeX and elsewhere.
Producing a book for Amazon KDP
Paulo Ney de Souza
Learn about the details of producing a book in LaTeX for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
Gráficos em LaTeX (Portuguese)
Emílio Kavamura
Learn about pgfplots - a lecture in Portuguese.
Introduction to ConTeXt (Spanish with English subtitles)
Joaquín Ataz López
An introduction to ConTeXt - a workshop in Spanish with English subtitles.
Cary Graphic Arts Collection Pressroom Tour
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel
Visit and work with a Letter Press printer.
UC Berkeley Rare Book Library Tour
David Faulds
Come visit one of the finest rare book collections in the world, including a 1482 print edition of Euclid’s Elementa Geometriae.
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Sponsors
Sponsored by the TeX Users Group,
Google,
Overleaf,
DANTE e.V.,
STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd, University of Adelaide, Australia, and individual donors. Thanks to all sponsors.
Additional sponsors are greatly appreciated, as is mentioning the conference to colleagues and in any other contexts.
Interested in sponsoring? Write to tug2021@tug.org
