Jul26 news: TUG'26+'25+more, LaTeX webinar, SILICON, CTAN

Hello TUG members,

TUG 2026 will take place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
from July 17-19 (Fri-Sun), 2026, with a LaTeX workshop on
tagged PDF on Thursday July 16. More attendees are welcome at any time.
  https://tug.org/tug2026/

The conference program:
  https://tug.org/tug2026/program.html

A few seats are still available for the LaTeX tagged PDF workshop
on July 16:
  https://tug.org/tug2026/workshop.html  

The conference will be streamed live on YouTube, and monitored for
questions and comments during the talks. Donations to defray the
(not inconsiderable) A/V and streaming costs are most welcome:
  https://youtube.com/@TeXUsersGroup
  https://tug.org/donate

The venue is the Alt Hotel Calgary East Village:
  https://www.germainhotels.com/en/alt-hotel/calgary-east-village
The deadline for hotel reservations was June 16; reserve now
if you haven't already. The group booking link is on the conference web page.

The local organizer is Max Chernoff. As always, the conference committee
is happy to provide any assistance we can; you can email us for all
questions and suggestions at [email protected].

Also on the TUG conference front: the individual videos for the talks at
TUG'25 are available now, thanks to Norbert Preining:
  https://tug.org/l/tug25-video  

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A webinar on accessible mathematical content in PDF was presented by
members of the LaTeX project and the LaTeX working group at the PDF
Association. It's available online:
  https://pdfa.org/event/webinar-accessible-mathematical-content-in-pdf/

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SILICON, the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation
in Old and New Media, has announced funding averaging $5,000 per project
to support digital language inclusion initiatives through the 2027
Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner Program. The deadline for proposals is July 24.
Plenty of other news from them as well:
  https://mailchi.mp/stanford/how-can-ai-support-language-digitization-and-digital-inclusion-2692696
  https://silicon.stanford.edu

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Other upcoming events:

- GUTenberg Expos\'es mensuels, online video presentations, in French:
  July 2, 2026: Damien Megy on luahyperbolic
  https://www.gutenberg-asso.fr/-Exposes-mensuels-

- 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/

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

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New CTAN packages, June 2026 (for all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):

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

- aidisclose, disclosure statements and checklists for the use of generative AI
- autoaffil, automatic deduplicated affiliation numbering
- brandstyler, automatic brand style implementation
- callout-itembox, colored callout item/numbered text boxes
- comment2tex, include annotated source files as LaTeX listings
- docext, extension for documenting LaTeX source files
- europasscv2025, unofficial class for the 2025 Europass curriculum vitae
- firstindexletter, enlarged initials for first entries of index letter groups
- gbt9704, LaTeX class for the Chinese official GB/T 9704-2012 document format
- hexdumptikz, display hexdumps in LaTeX with the help of TikZ
- luanumbers, decimal adjustment from a single preamble setup
- nwafupaper, LaTeX class for documents at Northwest A&F University, China
- printfilelist, print a list of the files used by the current document
- proofgraph, dependency graphs of the results of a mathematical article
- pst-art-led, a PSTricks art package to generate LED displays
- pst-chladni, draw the vibration of circular plates with unbound edges
- pst-electrolysis, PSTricks example images for electrolysis
- pst-ellipsoid, plotting ellipsoids in 3D
- pst-hyperboloid, rotating a hyperbola to show geometric objects
- pst-hypertiling, draws the electromagnetic field of a Hertzian Dipole
- relatese, general report helper package
- scholatex, tag-based language for creating school worksheets and handouts
- turkce-sayi, automatic Turkish suffix handling for reference numbers
- westlakethesis, westlake University template

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