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<td> Nov21 TUG news: Halloween, TUGboat, book review,
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<td> Wed, 3 Nov 2021 23:02:02 +0100</td>
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<td> TeX Users Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tug-news@tug.org"><tug-news@tug.org></a></td>
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Dear TeXers,<br>
<br>
October is behind us. For those of us who miss just finished
Halloween<br>
celebrations, here are some packages to keep the spirit of the<br>
holiday: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/halloweenmath">https://ctan.org/pkg/halloweenmath</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/realhats">https://ctan.org/pkg/realhats</a>.<br>
<br>
A piece of exciting October news: TUGboat 42:3 is uploaded to the<br>
printers. Expect it to hit your mailboxes (real or virtual ones
for the<br>
electronic subscribers) in due course. Looking ahead, the deadline
for<br>
submissions for the next issue is March 31. Please consider
publishing<br>
your ideas and reports about TeX and all things related to
typesetting<br>
in our journal. (We do not charge any publication fees.)<br>
<br>
Speaking of printed matter, recently Stefan Kottwitz published the<br>
second edition of his Beginner's Guide. Here is a review by<br>
LaTeX Ninja:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://latex-ninja.com/2021/10/27/">https://latex-ninja.com/2021/10/27/</a><br>
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Interesting conferences in the coming months:<br>
- TeXConf2021, Japan, online, Nov 13.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texconf2021.tumblr.com/">https://texconf2021.tumblr.com/</a><br>
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- Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century: From graphemes to
knowledge,<br>
Palaiseau, France, June 8-10, 2022.<br>
Submission deadline: January 10, 2022.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grafematik2022.sciencesconf.org/">https://grafematik2022.sciencesconf.org/</a><br>
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- 16th ConTeXt Meeting: Dreifelden, Germany, Sept. 12-18, 2022.<br>
Registration opens May 1, 2022.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/">http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/</a><br>
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New CTAN packages in October:<br>
- bboldx, extension of the bbold package with a Blackboard Bold
alphabet;<br>
- bodeplot, draw Bode, Nyquist and Nichols plots with gnuplot or
pgfplots;<br>
- ccref, crosss referencing with article contraction;<br>
- cdcmd, expandable conditional commands for LaTeX;<br>
- datestamp, fixed date-stamps with LuaLaTeX;<br>
- handoutwithnotes, make handouts with notes from a LaTeX beamer
presentation;<br>
- lua-widow-control, automatically remove widows and orphans from
any document;<br>
- lutabulartools, provides some useful commands for tabular
matter;<br>
- nahuatl, render nahuatl glyphs;<br>
- phfcc, convenient inline commenting in collaborative documents;<br>
- phfextendedabstract, typeset extended abstracts for conferences,<br>
such as often encountered in quantum information theory;<br>
- tex-vpat, TeX Accessibility Conformance Report;<br>
- tikz-bagua, draw Bagua symbols in Yijing;<br>
- truthtable, automatically generate truth tables for given
variables<br>
and statements;<br>
- unicodefonttable, a Unicode font table generator;<br>
- zx-calculus, a library to typeset ZX Calculus diagrams.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing!<br>
Boris Veytsman, TUG President<br>
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