Dec25 news: TUGboat, conferences/videos, CTAN

Hello TeX users,

TUGboat 46:3, the last regular issue for 2025, mailed a few days ago,
and has been arriving in mailboxes.  It's also available online, and the
previous issue (the TUG'25 proceedings) is now fully available:
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents46-3.html
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents46-2.html

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

Upcoming conferences:

- 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,
  Alberta, Canada, most likely July 17-19, 2026, with a LaTeX workshop
  on July 16. 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, November 2025 (for all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):

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

- beamertheme-csh, a Beamer theme for the Complexity Science Hub Vienna
- freemath, LaTeX maths without backslashes
- kkran, generate answer fields in tests and exams
- lxgw-fonts, an unprofessional open-source Chinese font family
- lydtype, typing in the Lydian alphabet
- slixte, a customizable class for creating slides
- splentinex, splentinex fonts
- terminalcode, terminal-style code display with ANSI colors,
  UTF-8 box-drawing, and dark/light themes
- vscodeicons, use vscode icons through LaTeX commands

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