Apr23 news: conferences, teX live, The LaTeX Companion 3rd ed., ctan
C V Radhakrishnan <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Apr 2023 11:49:15 +0530
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tex.tugindia |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1354064710288025190== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------VBEczUZBDVnCPLVTHAHBY2qr" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------VBEczUZBDVnCPLVTHAHBY2qr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [tex-announce] Apr23 news: conferences, teX live, The LaTeX Companion 3rd ed., ctan Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 19:37:22 -0600 From: TeX Users Group <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Dear TeXers TUG 2023 (https://tug.org/tug2023/) is getting closer. The conference will be held July 14-16 in Bonn, Germany, with a developers' PDF workshop on July 13. DANTE will also hold a meeting at the same venue on July 13. April 10 is the deadline for both bursary (tug.org/bursary) and presentation submissions (tug.org/tug2023/cfp.html), and April 15 for early bird discounted conference registration (tug.org/tug2023/register.html). The TUG'23 conference hotel in Bonn is now sold out (except for a few individual nights, but nothing for the whole conference). If you'd like advice on choosing alternate lodging, feel free to email the conference committee at [email protected], and the local organizers will happy to help. In other conference news, the deadline for BachoTeX registration is extended until April 11. BachoTeX will be held April 29-May 3. As Jerzy Ludwichowski notes, there are compelling reasons to come: - we have not met for a long time - the conference program is (as always ;-) very interesting and entertaining (https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/program), to mention some items of the still being extended program: - Andrzej Tomaszewski with his fascinating book projects, - Hans Hagen's series on ConTeXt MkXL and the LuaMetaTeX engine, - Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and the GUST e-foundry's font engine, - Piotr Bolek about the monumental Project Kolberg, - workshops by Willy Egger, BarBara Wili\'nska and Kasia Burakowska, - West African djembe and dundun drumming concert, - beer tasting/appreciating, - bonfire, - conference dinner, - and, and, and ... - our special guests will be 5 students from Odesa University, Ukraine. The registration is at https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/registration/registration-form To continue the topic of conferences, the 17th International ConTeXt meeting will take place September 10-16th, 2023, in Prague-Sib\v{r}ina, Czech Republic. TeX Live 2023 is out. You may consider installing it from https://tug.org/texlive/. The accessibility report for it can be found at https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat (thanks to the ongoing work in LaTeX, that VPAT document is itself generally accessible in HTML and PDF formats, though some issues remain). DVDs should start mailing by the end of May. TeX Live is our flagship distribution. As of today it includes 7667 packages. Many thanks to the thousands of volunteers who submitted and maintain the packages and the infrastructure of TeXLive. In other news, Frank Mittelbach and Ulrike Fischer have finished the new, third edition of The LaTeX Companion. The release is expected mid-May. You can pre-order it here: https://tug.org/l/tlc3 If you start the order from the links on latex-project.org or tug.org, you will get a discount and the authors will get a small extra commission. The Companion has been a desktop reference for many LaTeXnicians for almost thirty years. The third edition discusses many new packages and developments, as well as the user-facing aspects of the long-awaited LaTeX3. You can download sample pages of all chapters at https://latex-project.org/news/2023/03/17/TLC3/ and the sources and outputs of all examples in the book are available at https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples Finally, new CTAN packages in March: - alchemist, typeset alchemist and astrological symbols; - babel-lithuanian, Babel support for documents written in Lithuanian; - egpeirce, draw existential graph invented by Charles S. Peirce; - emo, emoji for all (LaTeX engines); - fenetrecas, commands for CAS-like windows (Xcas or Geogebra) in TikZ; - fistrum, access to 150 paragraphs of Lorem Fistrum very dummy text; - korigamik, typeset articles using KorigamiK's document class; - mpchess, drawing chess boards and positions with MetaPost; - outilsgeomtikz, some geometric tools, with TikZ; - tangocolors, use colors from the Tango color palette; - tikz-nfold, triple, quadruple, and n-fold paths with TikZ; - uvaletter, uofficial letterhead template for the University of Amsterdam. Happy TeXing! Boris Veytsman, TUG President --------------VBEczUZBDVnCPLVTHAHBY2qr Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html data-lt-installed="true"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <script data-cookieconsent="ignore" src="moz-extension://8dba3d7e-138a-4507-9401-dc20721b01b2/content/executor.js"></script> </head> <body style="padding-bottom: 1px;"> <div class="moz-forward-container"> <table class="moz-email-headers-table" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>[tex-announce] Apr23 news: conferences, teX live, The LaTeX Companion 3rd ed., ctan</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Mon, 3 Apr 2023 19:37:22 -0600</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>TeX Users Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> Dear TeXers<br> <br> TUG 2023 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2023/">https://tug.org/tug2023/</a>) is getting closer. The conference<br> will be held July 14-16 in Bonn, Germany, with a developers' PDF<br> workshop on July 13. DANTE will also hold a meeting at the same venue on<br> July 13.<br> <br> April 10 is the deadline for both bursary (tug.org/bursary) and<br> presentation submissions (tug.org/tug2023/cfp.html), and<br> April 15 for early bird discounted conference registration<br> (tug.org/tug2023/register.html).<br> <br> The TUG'23 conference hotel in Bonn is now sold out (except for a few<br> individual nights, but nothing for the whole conference). If you'd like<br> advice on choosing alternate lodging, feel free to email the conference<br> committee at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>, and the local organizers will happy to help.<br> <br> In other conference news, the deadline for BachoTeX registration is<br> extended until April 11. BachoTeX will be held April 29-May 3.<br> As Jerzy Ludwichowski notes, there are compelling reasons to come:<br> - we have not met for a long time<br> - the conference program is (as always ;-) very interesting and<br> entertaining (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/program">https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/program</a>),<br> to mention some items of the still being extended program:<br> - Andrzej Tomaszewski with his fascinating book projects,<br> - Hans Hagen's series on ConTeXt MkXL and the LuaMetaTeX engine,<br> - Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and the GUST e-foundry's font engine,<br> - Piotr Bolek about the monumental Project Kolberg,<br> - workshops by Willy Egger, BarBara Wili\'nska and Kasia Burakowska,<br> - West African djembe and dundun drumming concert,<br> - beer tasting/appreciating,<br> - bonfire,<br> - conference dinner,<br> - and, and, and ...<br> - our special guests will be 5 students from Odesa University, Ukraine.<br> The registration is at<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/registration/registration-form">https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/registration/registration-form</a><br> <br> To continue the topic of conferences, the 17th International ConTeXt<br> meeting will take place September 10-16th, 2023, in Prague-Sib\v{r}ina,<br> Czech Republic.<br> <br> TeX Live 2023 is out. You may consider installing it from<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/texlive/">https://tug.org/texlive/</a>. The accessibility report for it can be found<br> at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat">https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat</a> (thanks to the ongoing work in LaTeX,<br> that VPAT document is itself generally accessible in HTML and PDF<br> formats, though some issues remain). DVDs should start mailing by the<br> end of May. TeX Live is our flagship distribution. As of today it<br> includes 7667 packages. Many thanks to the thousands of volunteers who<br> submitted and maintain the packages and the infrastructure of TeXLive.<br> <br> In other news, Frank Mittelbach and Ulrike Fischer have finished the<br> new, third edition of The LaTeX Companion. The release is expected<br> mid-May. You can pre-order it here:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/l/tlc3">https://tug.org/l/tlc3</a><br> If you start the order from the links on latex-project.org or tug.org,<br> you will get a discount and the authors will get a small extra<br> commission.<br> <br> The Companion has been a desktop reference for many LaTeXnicians for<br> almost thirty years. The third edition discusses many new packages and<br> developments, as well as the user-facing aspects of the long-awaited<br> LaTeX3. You can download sample pages of all chapters at<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://latex-project.org/news/2023/03/17/TLC3/">https://latex-project.org/news/2023/03/17/TLC3/</a><br> and the sources and outputs of all examples in the book are available at<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples">https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples</a><br> <br> Finally, new CTAN packages in March:<br> - alchemist, typeset alchemist and astrological symbols;<br> - babel-lithuanian, Babel support for documents written in Lithuanian;<br> - egpeirce, draw existential graph invented by Charles S. Peirce;<br> - emo, emoji for all (LaTeX engines);<br> - fenetrecas, commands for CAS-like windows (Xcas or Geogebra) in TikZ;<br> - fistrum, access to 150 paragraphs of Lorem Fistrum very dummy text;<br> - korigamik, typeset articles using KorigamiK's document class;<br> - mpchess, drawing chess boards and positions with MetaPost;<br> - outilsgeomtikz, some geometric tools, with TikZ;<br> - tangocolors, use colors from the Tango color palette;<br> - tikz-nfold, triple, quadruple, and n-fold paths with TikZ;<br> - uvaletter, uofficial letterhead template for the University of Amsterdam.<br> <br> Happy TeXing!<br> Boris Veytsman, TUG President<br> </div> </body> <lt-container></lt-container> </html> --------------VBEczUZBDVnCPLVTHAHBY2qr-- --===============1354064710288025190== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Home: http://www.tug.org.in/ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq unsubscribe: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tugindia --===============1354064710288025190==--