Nov25 news: James Mosley, TUGboat, LaTeX, conferences, CTAN

Hello TeX users,

First, James Mosley, an esteemed type scholar of the past half-century,
passed away in August; the upcoming TUGboat will have a memoriam. For
this newsletter, we wanted to publicize that his lecture series on the
history of letterforms is now available publicly:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh8Q6TpPxtgxSG6DEuOrH9iKx9bh6Pr7G

TUGboat 46:3, the last regular issue for 2025, is at the printer and will
mail soon. The deadline for the next issue of TUGboat is March 20, 2026.
Early submissions are welcome and greatly appreciated:
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html

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The LaTeX 2025-11-01 release has been made and will be in the
distributions shortly, if not already. Release notes:
  https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews42.pdf

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Upcoming conferences:

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

- Journ\'ee GUTenberg annual meeting, Paris, France, November 8, 2025.
  https://www.gutenberg-asso.fr/Journee-GUTenberg-2025

- GUTenberg Expos\'es menuels, online video presentations, in French.
  December 4, 2025: Valentin Dao on his intexgral package and expl3 syntax.
  January 8, 2026: Jean Abou Samra on Lilypond.
  https://www.gutenberg-asso.fr/-Exposes-mensuels-

- DANTE spring meeting, March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH,
  Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
  https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2026/

- EuroBachoTeX 2026, April 29-May 3, 2026, Bachotek, Poland.
  https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/index_en.html

- OSSConf 2026, July 1-3, 2026, University of \v{Z}ilina, Slovakia,
  will have a dedicated TeX+R session. The conference will be multilingual.
  https://ossconf.fri.uniza.sk/

- We are planning for the TUG 2026 conference to 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 always.
  https://tug.org/tug2026

- ConTeXT meeting 2026: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026.
  Theme: Focussing.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2026/

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

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

- arsenal-math, Arsenal Math OpenType fonts
- beamertheme-bilkent-econ, LaTeX Beamer theme for the Department of
  Economics at Bilkent University
- futharksymb, macros for entering futhark runes
- kksymbols, LaTeX commands for enclosing characters in circles, squares,
  diamonds, or brackets
- ktbox, framework for semantic color, structured highlighting, and scholarly
  communication
- latex-formatter, a LaTeX prettyprinter written in Rust
- luwa-ul, provides underlines and highlightings which can be used in
  vertical mode
- minted-code, predefined environments for typesetting LaTeX code with minted
- panda, a package to estimate the blackness of fonts
- pkginfograb, collect LaTeX package information in a regular way
- tkz-interval, interval brackets made with TikZ
- xtufte, extend the tufte document classes to run with Unicode-aware engines
- zeckendorf, Knuth multiplication and Zeckendorf representations of big
  integers

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