Nov23 news: TUGboat, LaTeX release 2023-11-01, book reviews, meetings

[TeX Users Group]

Hello TeX folk,

The third issue of TUGboat for 2023 has been submitted to the printer.
We hope it will be in members' mailboxes some time in December, but due
to the upcoming holiday season, there may be unavoidable delays.

A new LaTeX release 2023-11-01 has just been made, and will be available
via normal updates by the time this is posted. One notable change is
that documents using only those features described in Lamport's original
manual, plus a small but growing number of packages (including
hyperref), can now be more or less automatically tagged, being a basis
for accessible documents that conform to standards such as PDF/UA. While
still experimental, serious experiments can more easily be undertaken.
For more info on this and all the other changes, see LaTeX News #38:
https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews38.pdf


Also, some recent book reviews (https://tug.org/books):

- The PDF version of The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, by Frank
Mittelbach with Ulrike Fischer, has been reviewed by John Lamb,
following his earlier review of the print edition.
https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb138reviews-mittelbach-tlc-pdf.html
(To order the book: https://tug.org/l/tlc3)

- LaTeX Graphics with TikZ, by Stefan Kottwitz, has been reviewed by
samcarter.
https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb138reviews-kottwitz-tikz.html
(To order: https://www.packtpub.com/product/latex-graphics-with-tikz/9781804618233)

- Godine at Fifty, a retrospective of the Boston publisher's illustrious
career, with discussions and illustrations of nearly 300 books has been
(briefly) reviewed by me:
https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb138reviews-godine50.html
(To order: https://godine.com/book/godine-at-50/)


The upcoming meetings:

- On November 16th, in Lyon (France), a workshop will be held (in
French) focusing on people who choose their tools carefully when writing
or manipulating text. Tools such as: LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, XML-TEI, and
the myriad scripting languages. Registration is required. Schedule of
talks and more information:
https://www.ixxi.fr/agenda/seminaires/libres-ecritures-numeriques
This workshop will be streamed and recorded.

- the next GUT annual meeting will take place on November 18 in Paris,
with a day of talks and discussions.
https://www.gutenberg-asso.fr/Journee-GUTenberg-2023

- Face/Interface: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction,
December 1 and December 2 at Stanford about non-Latin typography and
more. Chuck Bigelow is the keynote speaker. The event is free, but
pre-registration is required. Registration form and the list of talks:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterface-global-type-design-and-human-computer-interaction-tickets-720692238887
We do not know if this conference will be streamed or recorded.

- the next DANTE annual meeting will take place in Ilmtal-Weinstrasse,
April 2024. When available, info will be posted at:
https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2024/

- TUG 2024 will take place in Prague (Czech Republic), summer 2024, with
Tom Hejda leading the local organization. We are still in the early
stages of planning the meeting. When available, dates and all else will
be posted at https://tug.org/tug2024/ and other usual places.

Happy TeXing,
Karl Berry (on behalf of the TUG board)
https://tug.org