Mar26 news: TeX Live 2026, TUG'26+more, TUG memberships, LaTeX book, CTAN
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--Apple-Mail=_F7AFC34A-FFBA-4834-A32B-B0058F6BB5BB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: TeX Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: [tex-announce] Mar26 news: TeX Live 2026, TUG'26+more, TUG = memberships, LaTeX book, CTAN Date: 1 March 2026 at 04:37:08 GMT+5:30 To: [email protected], [email protected] Hello TUG members, TeX Live: we are approaching the end of the pretest for this year's TL release. We believe the new binaries are essentially stable at this point, and hope to make the final release shortly. If you have time and interest, please give it a try. By default, the pretest installation will be completely separate from any other TeX installation that might be on a given system. For information on installing, and the changes this year: https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html * TUG 2026 will take place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, from July 17-19 (Fri-Sun), 2026, with a LaTeX developers' workshop on tagged PDF on Thursday July 16. https://tug.org/tug2026/ Conference information and the registration form are now available: https://tug.org/tug2026/ The venue is the Alt Hotel Calgary East Village: https://www.germainhotels.com/en/alt-hotel/calgary-east-village The TUG bursary is available for those needing financial assistance to attend the conference: https://tug.org/bursary/ The local organizer is Max Chernoff -- thanks, Max! As always, the conference committee is happy to provide invitation letters for visas and any other assistance; you can email us at [email protected] * Other upcoming events: - 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/ - Gutenberg - Knuth - Zapf - Lamport - LaTeX, March 19, 2026. Frank Mittelbach will receive an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, for his life's work on research in document engineering and making LaTeX what it is today. The ceremony will be in the morning and he will give a talk in the afternoon. Both events are open to the public. Congratulations, Frank! = https://seminarseries.muni.cz/mathematics-physics-computer-science/lecture= s/%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B7-gutenberg-knuth-zapf-lamport-latex-the-ev= olution-of-document-production-and-information-access - 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/ - ConTeXt meeting 2026: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026. Theme: Focussing. https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2026/ * \'Etienne Ghys, Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure de Lyon, gave the MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. The talk is entitled "The Shape of Letters: from Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth": https://youtu.be/1OIxzewWilc * The 2026 TUG membership/renewal forms are available: https://tug.org/join The regular membership rates are unchanged in 2026. For those at institutions that would like to provide significant support = to TeX and TUG, please consider the institutional and patron memberships: https://tug.org/instapp We greatly appreciate our members and all TeX users! Thank you! * The third edition of the LaTeX Beginner's Guide, by Stefan Kottwitz, has been published. It has numerous updates and additions, such as presentations (beamer), engines and formats, and AI tools. https://packt.link/n96Mx * New CTAN packages, February 2026 (for all updates: = https://ctan.org/ctan-ann): Information about any CTAN package is available at ctan.org/pkg/PACKAGE-NAME - beamertheme-durham, a content-first Beamer theme for teaching, = research, and long-form academic presentations - cqjtuthesis, thesis template for Chongqing Jiaotong University (CQJTU) - deutschesmuseum, LaTeX class for Deutsches Museum publications - fariscovernew, create elegant Arabic and English title (cover) pages - fixtounicode, setting tounicode mappings for 7/8 bit fonts - iacrj, a document class for IACR journal publications - jyu-chem-thesis, theses at the Department of Chemistry, U. = Jyv\"askyl\"a - lualineno, line numbering in LuaTeX-based formats - makegobbler, keep or drop some part of LaTeX source code - memoize-ext, extended support for memoization with Memoize - metacapture, a package for the capture of author-supplied metadata - milestonetimeline, making horizontal milestone timelines - seqcalc, a package for declarative sequent-calculus proofs - tokglobalstack, dedicated global stacks implementations - tokgroupmark, restoring tokens after closing multiple groups - xdvipsk-support, LuaLaTeX packages for the xdvipsk binary (dvips = extension) Happy \TeX{}ing, Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board --Apple-Mail=_F7AFC34A-FFBA-4834-A32B-B0058F6BB5BB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: = after-white-space;"><div><div><span style=3D"font-family: = -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = sans-serif;"><b>From: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family: = -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = sans-serif;">TeX Users Group = <[email protected]></span></div><div><span style=3D"font-family: = -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = sans-serif;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family: = -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = sans-serif;"><b>[tex-announce] Mar26 news: TeX Live 2026, TUG'26+more, = TUG memberships, LaTeX book, CTAN</b></span></div><div><span = style=3D"font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", = Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family: = -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = sans-serif;">1 March 2026 at 04:37:08 GMT+5:30</span></div><div><span = style=3D"font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", = Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>To: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family: = -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, = sans-serif;">[email protected], = [email protected]</span></div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"></blockquote><div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>Hello TUG members,</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>TeX Live: we are approaching the end = of the pretest for this year's TL</div><div>release. We believe the new = binaries are essentially stable at this</div><div>point, and hope to = make the final release shortly. If you have</div><div>time and interest, = please give it a try. By default, the pretest</div><div>installation = will be completely separate from any other TeX = installation</div><div>that might be on a given system. For information = on installing, and the</div><div>changes this = year:</div><div> https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html</div><div><font= color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>*</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>TUG 2026 will take place in Calgary, = Alberta, Canada,</div><div>from July 17-19 (Fri-Sun), 2026, with a LaTeX = developers' workshop on</div><div>tagged PDF on Thursday July = 16.</div><div> https://tug.org/tug2026/</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>Conference information and the = registration form are now = available:</div><div> https://tug.org/tug2026/</div><div>The venue = is the Alt Hotel Calgary East = Village:</div><div> https://www.germainhotels.com/en/alt-hotel/calgar= y-east-village</div><div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>The TUG bursary is available for = those needing financial assistance to</div><div>attend the = conference:</div><div> https://tug.org/bursary/</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>The local organizer is Max Chernoff = -- thanks, Max! As always, the</div><div>conference committee is happy = to provide invitation letters for visas</div><div>and any other = assistance; you can email us at [email protected]</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>*</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>Other upcoming = events:</div><div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: = rgb(88, 86, 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>- DANTE spring meeting, = March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH,</div><div> Lahnau, Germany = (pre-meeting get-together on March = 11).</div><div> https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2026/</div>= <div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>- Gutenberg - Knuth - Zapf - Lamport = - LaTeX, March 19, 2026.</div><div> Frank Mittelbach will receive = an honorary doctorate from Masaryk</div><div> University Brno, = Czech Republic, for his life's work on research = in</div><div> document engineering and making LaTeX what it is = today. The ceremony</div><div> will be in the morning and he will = give a talk in the afternoon. Both</div><div> events are open to = the public. Congratulations, = Frank!</div><div> https://seminarseries.muni.cz/mathematics-physics-c= omputer-science/lectures/%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B7-gutenberg-knuth-za= pf-lamport-latex-the-evolution-of-document-production-and-information-acce= ss</div><div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, = 86, 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>- EuroBachoTeX 2026, April = 29-May 3, 2026, Bachotek, = Poland.</div><div> https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/index_en.html</div><d= iv><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>- OSSConf 2026, July 1-3, 2026, = University of \v{Z}ilina, Slovakia,</div><div> will have a = dedicated TeX+R session. The conference will be = multilingual.</div><div> https://ossconf.fri.uniza.sk/</div><div><fon= t color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>- ConTeXt meeting 2026: Maibach, = Germany, August 24-29, 2026.</div><div> Theme: = Focussing.</div><div> https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2026/</div><d= iv><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>*</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>\'Etienne Ghys, Ecole Normale = Sup\'erieure de Lyon, gave the</div><div>MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith = Porter Public Lecture at the 2026 Joint</div><div>Mathematics Meetings. = The talk is entitled "The Shape of Letters: from</div><div>Leonardo da = Vinci to Donald = Knuth":</div><div> https://youtu.be/1OIxzewWilc</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>*</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>The 2026 TUG membership/renewal = forms are available:</div><div> https://tug.org/join</div><div>The = regular membership rates are unchanged in 2026.</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>For those at institutions that would = like to provide significant support to</div><div>TeX and TUG, please = consider the institutional and patron = memberships:</div><div> https://tug.org/instapp</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>We greatly appreciate our members = and all TeX users! Thank you!</div><div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>*</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>The third edition of the LaTeX = Beginner's Guide, by Stefan Kottwitz,</div><div>has been published. It = has numerous updates and additions, such as</div><div>presentations = (beamer), engines and formats, and AI = tools.</div><div> https://packt.link/n96Mx</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>*</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>New CTAN packages, February 2026 = (for all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>Information about any CTAN package = is available = at</div><div> ctan.org/pkg/PACKAGE-NAME</div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>- beamertheme-durham, a = content-first Beamer theme for teaching, research,</div><div> and = long-form academic presentations</div><div>- cqjtuthesis, thesis = template for Chongqing Jiaotong University (CQJTU)</div><div>- = deutschesmuseum, LaTeX class for Deutsches Museum = publications</div><div>- fariscovernew, create elegant Arabic and = English title (cover) pages</div><div>- fixtounicode, setting tounicode = mappings for 7/8 bit fonts</div><div>- iacrj, a document class for IACR = journal publications</div><div>- jyu-chem-thesis, theses at the = Department of Chemistry, U. Jyv\"askyl\"a</div><div>- lualineno, line = numbering in LuaTeX-based formats</div><div>- makegobbler, keep or drop = some part of LaTeX source code</div><div>- memoize-ext, extended support = for memoization with Memoize</div><div>- metacapture, a package for the = capture of author-supplied metadata</div><div>- milestonetimeline, = making horizontal milestone timelines</div><div>- seqcalc, a package for = declarative sequent-calculus proofs</div><div>- tokglobalstack, = dedicated global stacks implementations</div><div>- tokgroupmark, = restoring tokens after closing multiple groups</div><div>- = xdvipsk-support, LuaLaTeX packages for the xdvipsk binary (dvips = extension)</div><div><font color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: = rgb(88, 86, 214);"><br></span></font></div><div><font = color=3D"#5856d6"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(88, 86, = 214);"><br></span></font></div><div>Happy \TeX{}ing,</div><div><div>Karl = Berry, on behalf of the TUG = Board<br></div></div></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_F7AFC34A-FFBA-4834-A32B-B0058F6BB5BB--