Sep22 TUG news: tug22 videos, TUGboat, election, ctan

[TeX Users Group]

Dear TeXers,

September is upon us. I hope the days of autumn bring health and
peace to fellow TeXers.

Thanks to the hard work of TUG volunteers, all videos from TUG2022 are
now online and available from the conference main page
(https://tug.org/tug2022/) and from our YouTube channel
(https://youtube.com/c/TeXUsersGroup). It was a huge task to
edit the videos, add the metadata, check the transcriptions. I want to
thank again the volunteers who performed this task, notably
Paulo Ney de Souza, Norbert Preining, J\'er\'emy Just, Chadrack Besongo,
and Barbara Beeton. Thanks also to all the volunteers who helped
organize the conference. You rock!

The proceedings issue of TUGboat is at the printer, and is expected to
be mailed around September 13. The electronic copy will be available
for TUG members as soon as the new issue is mailed. At that time, the
spring 2022 issue, 43:1, will be publicly available. By the way, I
just reread some of the publicly available issue from fall 2021, 42:3
(https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/), and thought it was a very good one.
Many interesting tidbits, from classical typography to the modern usage
of Unicode and open street maps.

Articles for the next issue of TUGboat are most welcome. The deadline is
October 15. For the article template and other information, see
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html

Speaking of TUG business, 2023 is an election year, so you might want
to consider serving on the Board. The official announcement is in
the TUGboat proceedings issue, and is also posted online:
  https://tug.org/election/

The 16th ConTeXt Meeting is scheduled for Dreifelden, Germany,
Sept. 12-18, 2022, https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/

In other news, last year mathematicians celebrated a centennial of a
great logician, Boris Trakhtenbrot
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Trakhtenbrot). He was born in
Moldova, studied in Ukraine, and worked in Russia and Israel. Recently
his son found unique photos of him, Stephen C Kleene and DEK picking
cotton in Uzbekistan. You can find these photos on DEK's page, just
above the list of lectures:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html#lectures

New CTAN packages in August:

- beamertheme-tcolorbox, a beamer inner theme which reproduces standard
  beamer blocks using tcolorboxes;
- biber-ms, a  BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX (multiscript version);
- biber-ms-linux, biber (multiscript) binaries for Linux;
- biber-ms-macos, biber (multiscript) binaries for MacOS;
- biber-ms-windows, biber (multiscript) binaries for Windows;
- biblatex-ms, sophisticated Bibliographies in LaTeX (multiscript version);
- customdice, simple commands for drawing customisable dice;
- fancyqr, fancy QR-Codes with TikZ;
- hereapplies, a LaTeX package for cross-linking applications of concepts;
- langnames, name languages and their genetic affiliations consistently;
- luaquotes, smart setting of quotation marks;
- swungdash, typeset a swung dash in LaTeX;
- texaccents, convert composite accented characters to Unicode;
- tikz-ext, a collection of libraries for PGF/TikZ;
- tikzpingus, penguins with TikZ;
- transparent-io, show for approval the filenames used in \input,
  \openin, or \openout (implemented entirely in TeX).


Happy TeXing!
Boris Veytsman, TUG President