Feb24 news: TUGboat, TUG'24, book review, other conferences, CTAN

[TeX Users Group]

Hello TUG members - first, thank you so much for already renewing your
membership, via automatic renewal or otherwise.

TUGboat: as always, submissions for the next TUGboat (45:1) are welcome
and encouraged. The deadline is March 24, 2024. Author info:
https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html

TUG 2024 will take place from July 19-21, 2024, in Prague, Czech
Republic. A LaTeX developer workshop (precise topic tbd) will likely
take place on July 18. The conference itself will take place at the
Hotel Grandior in downtown Prague, but room reservations are not quite
in place yet. All information will be posted when available:
https://tug.org/tug2024/

A new book review has been posted, of Stefan Kottwitz's LaTeX Cookbook,
reviewed by Uwe Ziegenhagen:
https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb139reviews-kottwitz-cookbook.html
https://www.packtpub.com/product/latex-cookbook/9781784395148

Other upcoming conferences:
- DANTE's 66th annual meeting will take place in Weimar, Germany, April 4-6.
https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2024/

- BachoTeX 2024 will take place in Bachotek, Poland, May 1-5.
This year's theme is ``composed thoughts''.
Deadline for proposals/abstracts: March 24.
https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2024-en

- ConTeXt Meeting 2024 will take place in Lutten/Hardenberg,
The Netherlands, August 17-23.
https://meeting.contextgarden.net/

Finally, some recent new packages on CTAN (https://ctan.org/):

- amnestyreport, LaTeX class for Amnesty International
- beamerthemeconcrete, collection of flat beamer themes
- freealign, align math formulas in different lines
- genealogy-profiles, genealogical profiles for LaTeX
- junicodevf, a TrueType variable font (not TeX .vf :) family for mediaevalists
- latex-dependency-grapher, visualize the dependencies of LaTeX files
- lua-placeholders, specifying placeholders for demonstration purposes
- moloch, beamer theme updating the metropolis theme
- odesandpdes, optimizing workflows involving odes and pdes
- ppmcheck, convert PDF to PNG and compare PNG files after l3build
- randexam, make an exam paper with randomized variants
- regulatory, flexible drafting of legal documents, especially in Dutch
- responsive, responsive design methods for LaTeX
- texblend, compile segments of LaTeX documents
- tikzdotncross, defining/marking coordinates and crossing (jumps) paths
- tikzquads, a few shapes designed to be used with CircuiTikZ
- tikzquests, parametric questions' repositories framework
- undar-digitacion, musical fingering diagrams for some instruments
- verifycommand, verifies definitions are unchanged, such as before patching
- ysabeau, a Garamond-inspired sans serif typeface design, with LaTeX support

Happy TeXing,
Karl Berry (on behalf of the TUG board)