Aug25 news: conferences, TUGboat, CTAN

Hello TeX users,

The TUG 2025 conference in Kerala, India, took place from July 18-20:
Thanks to the entire team at TeXFolio, led by CV Radhakrishnan,
for hosting a wonderful meeting.
  https://tug.org/tug2025/

Videos of individual talks will be posted as soon as they are available.
At present, the whole-day streams are available on YouTube:
  https://tug.org/l/tug25-wholeday

We are planning that the TUG 2026 conference will take place in Calgary
or Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in one of the latter weekends in July 2026.
We will make announcements and update web pages as information becomes
available, as usual.

Upcoming conferences this year:

- BayTeX 2025 in Ebermannstatt, Germany, August 23, 2025,
  at the Franconian Switzerland steam railway.  (In German.)
  https://www.hermconsult.de/TeX/Stammtisch.html

- ConTeXt Meeting 2025, in Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  Theme: What if ... ?
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

- GuIT 2025, in Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025. Pre-registration is
  required, by September 30, but there is no registration fee.
  https://www.guitex.org/home/en/meeting

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Work is underway on the TUG'25 conference proceedings, as the next
issue of TUGboat. The deadline for submissions for the next regular
issue is October 3. Submissions are always welcome.
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/

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

- broydensolve, solve a system of equations with Broyden's method
- char2path, a LaTeX package that converts characters into TikZ paths
- fancymag, a LuaLaTeX package for academic magazines and scientific
- intexgral, a LaTeX package for typesetting integrals
- latex-indexer, automate index generation for LaTeX documents
- linkedthm, hyperlinked theorem--proof environments for LaTeX
- longtwocolumn, a two-column alternative allowing automatic page breaks
- ltx-talk, a class for typesetting presentations
- lua-tikz3dtools, a LuaLaTeX package improving on 3D capabilities in TikZ
- luatex-type-definitions, type definitions for the Lua API of LuaTeX
- openmoji, use openmoji through LaTeX commands
- optikz, drawing laser setups and optical systems using TikZ
- rainbowbrackets, automatic coloring of nested parentheses
- runtexfile, automate the process of compiling (La)TeX documents
- seatingchart, generation of seating charts
- tablericons, use tablerIcons through LaTeX commands

Information about any CTAN package is available at
  ctan.org/pkg/PACKAGE-NAME

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