<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">TeX Users Group</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:tug-news@tug.org">tug-news@tug.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 4:25 AM<br>Subject: Jul19 TUG news: Nature article, tug'19, CTAN, fonts<br>To: <<a href="mailto:tex-announce@tug.org">tex-announce@tug.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org">texhax@tug.org</a>><br></div><br><br>Dear TeXers!<br>
<br>
We are over the crest of the year. I hope it has been good for you.<br>
For the people in the USA, July is a time of celebration and<br>
festivities. Let us relax and recharge for the rest of the year.<br>
<br>
There was a paper about LaTeX in Nature,<br>
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01796-1" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01796-1</a>,<br>
which sparked a discussion at Hacker News,<br>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20191348" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20191348</a>. Some of us might find<br>
here interesting insights about the way our community is perceived<br>
from the outside.<br>
<br>
I'd like to use this space sometimes to mention organizations which<br>
might be interesting for the community. As noted by Barbara Beeton, the<br>
Museum of Printing in Haverhill MA (<a href="https://museumofprinting.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://museumofprinting.org/</a>) is<br>
one of them. The web site features many items from the museum<br>
collection. It is especially interesting that the museum now posts on<br>
twitter, facebook and instagram highlights of women's involvement in<br>
printing-related activities through history, with the selected bits<br>
associated with women in the countries represented in the current<br>
women's soccer world cup.<br>
<br>
In more TeX-related news, TUG 2019 is now just a month away. Hope to<br>
see you in Palo Alto! More participants are most welcome.<br>
(<a href="https://tug.org/tug2019" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.org/tug2019</a>)<br>
<br>
As TUGboat 40:1 has now been received by (almost) all print subscribers,<br>
let us congratulate the great team of our flagship journal with the<br>
anniversary of their exemplary service. (<a href="https://tug.org/TUGboat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.org/TUGboat</a>)<br>
<br>
New packages on CTAN last month (<a href="https://ctan.org/pkg" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/pkg</a>):<br>
<br>
- thuaslogos, logos for The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS),<br>
- spacingtricks, dealing with some spacing issues.<br>
- pseudo, typesetting pseudocode,<br>
- poiretone, LaTeX support for poiretone fonts,<br>
- inkpaper, a mathematical paper template,<br>
- hu-berlin-bundle, LaTeX classes for the Humboldt-Universit\"at zu Berlin,<br>
- forum, LaTeX support for forum fonts,<br>
- bargraph-js, create bar graphs using form fields and JavaScript,<br>
- arraycols, new column types for array and tabular environments,<br>
- amscdx, enhanced commutative diagrams,<br>
<br>
Also, there were many updates for fonts and font support. Great thanks<br>
to Bob Tennent, Mohamed El Morabity, Michael Sharpe, and others, for<br>
their massive efforts in building so many large font packages, and to<br>
Marc Penninga (autoinst, <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/fontools" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/pkg/fontools</a>) and Eddie Kohler<br>
(otftotfm, <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/lcdf-typetools" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ctan.org/pkg/lcdf-typetools</a>) for software that helps<br>
makes it happen. While on the topic of fonts, let me mention LaTeX Font<br>
Catalogue (<a href="https://tug.dk/FontCatalogue/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.dk/FontCatalogue/</a>), by Palle Jorgensen of our<br>
friends at TUG-DK, which provides several views for browsing hundreds of<br>
the available TeX-world fonts.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing in any font!<br>
Boris Veytsman (TUG President)<br>
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