May25 news: TUGboat, Visible Language, TUG'25, conferences, CTAN

Hello TeX users,

To start with TUGboat, the first issue for 2025 (168 pages!) is at the
printer and we expect it to start mailing soon. As always, we welcome
submissions for the upcoming issues.
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/

Many of us are interested in typography and text research as well as
TeX.  The long-time journal Visible Language is now fully open-access
and available on the web:
  https://www.visible-language.org/journal/

The latest issue includes an article "Digital Type Challenges" by
Lucida designers Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes:
  https://www.visible-language.org/59-1/digital-type-challenges
  https://tug.org/lucida/

Visible Language is welcoming submissions for a special student issue
later this year:
  https://www.visible-language.org/journal/calls/

Enjoy!

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The TUG 2025 conference will take place in Trivandrum, Kerala, India,
hosted by TeXFolio, from July 18-20 (Fri-Sun), 2025.
  https://tug.org/tug2025/

The venue is the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Trivandrum (the booking deadline
of May 31 is approaching):
  https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/trvrt-hyatt-regency-trivandrum

There will 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

The deadline for presentation proposals has passed, but we will continue
to accept submissions (title and abstract) while space permits.
Additional remote presentations are welcome.
  https://tug.org/tug2025/cfp.html

Conference information and the registration form are now available:
  https://tug.org/tug2025/register.html

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

A visa will be needed by most participants coming from outside
India; it's advisable to start that process as soon as possible. The
conference committee is happy to provide invitation letters and any
other assistance; you can email us at [email protected]

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BachoTeX 2025 is taking place as this newsletter is going out!
  https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/index_en.html

The ConTeXt Meeting 2025, Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

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

- afperpack, a parametric questions' repositories framework
- beamer-theme-albi, the Albi beamer theme
- beamertheme-cleaneasy, a clean and minimalist Beamer theme
- bracealign, align braces under and over math expressions
- cistercian, display cistercian numerals
- figureversions, figure versions for LaTeX
- fontawesome6, Font Awesome 6 with LaTeX support
- lua-regression, add polynomial regressions to graphs
- mohe-book, typeset authored, translated, and research books according
  to MOHE (Afghanistan) rules
- novabeamer-theme, a flexible and customizable LaTeX theme for creating
  professional presentations
- onepgnote, space-efficient one-page notes for exams
- open-everyday-symbols, a list of ``everyday'' symbols, to be extended
  by everybody
- ou-tma, a package to aid in the writing of Tutor Marked Assessments
  for the Open University
- qworld, draw graphical calculus in monoidal categories and quantum theory
- tikzfxgraph, plotting functions in a simplified way
- traffic-light-protocol, show TLP (Traffic Light Protocol) tags

Information about any CTAN package is available at
  https://ctan.org/pkg/PKGNAME

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