Oct25 news: TUGboat, conferences, CTAN

[TeX Users Group]

Hello TeX friends,

First, TUGboat 46:2, the proceedings for TUG'25, has been mailed
to members and published online.
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents46-2.html
  https://tug.org/tug2025

So TUGboat 46:1 is now fully open to all:
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents46-1.html

The deadline for the next issue of TUGboat is October 3, 2025.
Submissions are always welcome and appreciated:
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html

Upcoming conferences:

- Vincent Goulet will give a video talk, in French, October 9, 2025,
  on "Int\'egrer l'\'equipe (de|du) (C\'e|Si)Tan(ne)?"
  https://www.gutenberg-asso.fr/-Exposes-mensuels-

- GuIT 2025, in Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025.
  https://www.guitex.org/home/en/meeting

- 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

- We are planning for the TUG 2026 conference to take place in Calgary
  or Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in one of the latter weekends in July 2026.
  We will make announcements and update web pages as information becomes
  available, as always.
  https://tug.org/tug2026

New CTAN packages in Sept. 2025 (for all updates: https://ctan.org/ctan-ann):
- bahaistar, Metafont source and macros for the Bah\'a'\'{\i} nine-pointed star
- beamer-varbox, provide beamer boxes with variable size corners
- bootstrapicons, icons from the framework bootstrap
- eigo, tools for creating Go (Weiqi/Baduk) game diagrams in LaTeX
- fretplot, create scale and chord diagrams for guitar-like instruments
- keisennote, TikZ-based Japanese-style notebook ruled lines for LaTeX
- latex-tagging-status, the LaTeX Tagging Status data
- maine-thesis, a class for University of Maine graduate theses
- mathador, LaTeX commands for the French game ``Mathador''
- phimisci, class for the journal ``Philosophy and the Mind Sciences''
- retosmatematicos, template for the Telegram group ``Retos Matem\'aticos''
- xpeekahead, a simple way for peeking ahead commands and environments

Information about any CTAN package is available at
  ctan.org/pkg/PACKAGE-NAME

Happy \TeX{}ing,
Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board