The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a membership-based not-for-profit organization, founded in 1980, for anyone who uses the TeX typesetting system created by Donald Knuth and/or is interested in typography and font design.
Join or renew with TUG (trial memberships available for new members) to support use and development of TeX and friends. All TUG memberships are for the calendar year, and include all benefits for the year no matter when you join.
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News
(blogs)
- New book review: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty, by Alan Cain, reviewed by Viktor Blåsjö. The book itself is also available at no charge.
- TUGboat 46:1 has been mailed to current TUG members; it is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 45:3 is now publicly available. The next issue will be the TUG'25 proceedings; the deadline for papers to be included there is July 28, 2025. Presentation proposals continue to be welcome; see the call for papers. Submissions for the next regular issue are also welcome and appreciated (deadline October 3).
- TeX Live 2025 and MacTeX 2025 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN (TL, MacTeX).
Upcoming events (meeting list)
- TUG 2025,
Hyatt Regency,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India, July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday),
with a LaTeX developers' workshop
on Thursday, July 17.
Visa application is advised to be started as soon as possible.
Register for the conference.
Call for papers: the initial deadline of April 25 has passed, but we will continue to accept submissions as long as the schedule remains open. Remote presentations are welcome.
Hotel reservations: deadline June 1; booking early is highly advisable. - ConTeXt Meeting 2025: Chmielno, Poland, August 23-29, 2025, at KREFTA, a site comparable to BachoTeX. Theme: “What if …” (other topics also welcome).
- BachoTeX 2025, in Bachotek, Poland, April 30-May 4, 2025. This year's theme: “TeX in education”. Call for papers.
- DANTE e.V., 67. annual meeting (DANTE 2025), April 3-5, 2025, at Hochschule Darmstadt.
- Face/Interface 2025, Stanford University, January 17-18, 2025. This conference is about global type design human-computer interaction, and brings together scholars, designers, technologists, and more, of all levels of experience. Several talks from the 2023 conference are available online.
- Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century: From graphemes to knowledge, Venice, Italy, and online, October 23-25, 2024. Donald Knuth will be a keynote speaker and hold an “all questions answered” session. The presentation proposal deadline is June 15, 2024; see the conference web site for details.
TUG is a not-for-profit organization by, for, and of its members, also representing the interests of TeX users worldwide. If you use any TeX-related programs (TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Metafont, MetaPost, Texinfo, et al.), please consider joining TUG (or another TeX user group). Memberships and donations are tax-deductible in the US.
TUG membership benefits include our journal TUGboat (available both in print and online). TUG also runs an annual TeX conference, and supports updates to the TeX Collection software: TeX Live, MacTeX, snapshot of CTAN, among other activities.
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is the primary repository for TeX-related software on the Internet. CTAN has many thousands of items; its package list, topic cloud, and CTAN search page can help you find what you need.
Latest CTAN
updates
- highlightx
- onepgnote
- jsonparse
- pgfkeysearch
- crossrefware
- ullrcorners
- NoteBeamer
- LiteTable
- beamertheme-spectrum
- l3kernel-dev
- ProfLycee
- luamplib
- tkz-elements
- OpTeX
- coloredbelts
- asymptote
- CircuiTikZ
- simplekv
- fontaxes
- dejavu-otf
- tikz3d-fr
- colortbl
- biblatex-gb7714-2015
- siunitx
- njuthesis
- systeme