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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Get started with TeX if you're looking for a system to install, or have questions to ask.
If you're looking for help, you can get community support via: a q&a site (tex.stackexchange.com), forum (latex.org), public mailing list (texhax), reddit, and in other ways.
News
(blogs)
- 2025 is an election year for TUG. Nomination forms for board positions and president are available. Submission deadline: 1 March 2025, 7am US/Pacific.
- New book reviews: LaTeX Cookbook, second edition, by Stefan Kottwitz, reviewed by Uwe Ziegenhagen; and Text and Math Into LaTeX, sixth edition, by George Grätzer, reviewed by Jim Hefferon.
- TUGboat 45:2, the TUG'24 proceedings, has been mailed to current TUG members; it is also available online and from the TUG store. Videos for all TUG'24 talks are also available. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 45:1 is now publicly available.
- TeX Live 2024 and MacTeX 2024 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN (TL, MacTeX). 2024 is the first year without distributing a DVD as a general membership benefit: more info.
Upcoming events (meeting list)
- Journée GUTenberg 2024 (annual meeting), Paris, France, November 16, 2024.
- Face/Interface 2025, Stanford University, January 13-18, 2025. This conference is about global type design human-computer interaction, and brings together scholars, designers, technologists, and more, of all levels of experience. Chuck Bigelow's keynote speech from the 2023 Face/Interface, Prediction is difficult, especially about the future, among others, is now 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.
- arXiv Accessibility Forum 2024, online, September 3-13, 2024: list of sessions. The Forum is fully remote, free, and open to all. Specifically related to TeX: the discussion on September 12 about HTML papers on arXiv, with Norbert Preining, Deyan Ginev, and others.
- DocEng2024 will include a talk by Frank Mittelbach et al. on accessible LaTeX, and by Didier Verna on the Knuth-Plass algorithm (as at TUG'24). San Jose, California, August 20-23.
- ConTeXt Meeting 2024: Lutten, The Netherlands, August 17-23, 2024.
- TUG 2024,
Hotel Grandior, Prague, Czech Republic, July 19-21 (Friday-Sunday),
with a LaTeX developers' workshop on Thursday, July 18.
YouTube Live stream is available. Videos for individual talks will be available as soon as time permits. - BachoTeX 2024, in Bachotek, Poland, May 1-5, 2024. This year's theme: “composed thoughts”.
- DANTE e.V., 66. annual meeting (DANTE 2024), April 4-6, 2024, in Weimar.
- DEIMS2024, the 5th International Workshop on Digitization and E-Inclusion in Mathematics and Science 2024, will be a hybrid event taking place 15-17 February 2024, online and at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan. Accessibility of STEM material is the focus, and several speakers are prominent in the (La)TeX community. Registration form; deadlines 15 January 2024 (in person) and 1 February 2024 (online; free of charge).
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
- Ysabeau
- WriteOnGrid
- jsonparse
- hyperref
- nstc-proposal
- postnotes
- customenvs
- SpeLaTeX
- markdown
- ProfMaquette
- xcomment
- rebuttal
- l3kernel
- l3kernel-dev
- mitthesis
- bezierplot
- enumext
- fontsetup
- NewComputerModern
- latex-base
- ProfLycee
- PixelArtTikz
- letterswitharrows
- tutodoc
- letgut
- moloch
- Drawing-with-Metapost
- xltabular
- tkz-grapheur