Jun25 news: LaTeX, book review, TUGboat mailing, TUG'25/India, CTAN

Hello again TUG members,

A new LaTeX release 2025-06-01 has been uploaded to CTAN, and should be
available via normal distribution updates within a few days. Progress in
the tagging project continues, including math. Mark support has also
been substantially improved, along with many other new features and bug
fixes. For more info on this and all the other changes, see LaTeX News #41: 
  https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews41.pdf

In general, the LaTeX News installments are a good way to learn about
the changes in and updates to LaTeX.
  https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/

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A new book review has been posted, of Alan Cain's magnum opus Form & Number,
which is freely available in various formats:
  https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large

The review is by mathematician Viktor Bl\aa{}sj\"o:
  https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb143reviews-cain.html

For those of us who are not mathematicians, the book is still quite a
joy to browse through just for the gorgeous illustrations. We expect to
also publish an interview with Alan soon.

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

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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:
  https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/trvrt-hyatt-regency-trivandrum

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

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

We will continue to accept submissions (title and abstract) while space
permits. Additional remote presentations are welcome.
  https://tug.org/tug2025/cfp.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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Another upcoming conference this year is ConTeXt Meeting 2025, in
Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

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

- beamertheme-spectrum, a clean beamer theme with a big title graphic
- hustvisual, visual identity of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- juliamono, support for the TrueType font JuliaMono
- linguistix, enhanced support for linguistics
- logictools, additional tools for typesetting formal logic
- measurebox, precise measurements of glyphs
- plain-widow, three output routines that extend \plainoutput
- qrcodetikz, prettier QR codes
- stretchy, macros for creating stretchy TeX symbols
- switch, a constant time/expandable switch/case
- ullrcorners, a template for printing presentations on notepaper
- xsipa, short XSAMPA-based commands for IPA transcription in LaTeX

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

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