<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:tug-news@tug.org" class="">tug-news@tug.org</a> (TeX Users Group)</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[tex-announce] : Dec21 TUG news: holidays, TUGboat, obituaries, packages, museums, CTAN</b></span><br class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">4 December 2021 at 8:07:28 AM IST</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org" class="">texhax@tug.org</a>, <a href="mailto:tex-announce@tug.org" class="">tex-announce@tug.org</a></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>Dear TeXers!<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>The late autumn and winter is a holiday season for many of us. While<br class="">this tradition is now adopted by almost all religions and secular<br class="">people, it is much older and is probably associated with the<br class="">agricultural rhythms in the Northern hemisphere. I congratulate the<br class="">TUG members and other TeXers for the holidays, and wish us all a<br class="">merry season and a safe and fruitful year.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>Speaking of seasonal gifts, we just received the new issue of TUGboat<br class="">(42:3, <a href="https://tug.org/TUGboat" class="">https://tug.org/TUGboat</a>). It is full of very interesting papers<br class="">on all things TeX and typography related - from a long essay by Charles<br class="">Bigelow on form, pattern and texture in the typographical image to a<br class="">cartoon by John Atkinson and a new unit for LuaMetaTeX based on a joke<br class="">by (then) 19-year-old Knuth. Several papers discuss multilingual<br class="">processing, including the long-awaited package (created by Frank<br class="">Mittelbach) to typeset font tables for large Unicode fonts:<br class=""><a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/unicodefonttable" class="">https://ctan.org/pkg/unicodefonttable</a>.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>Another piece in TUGboat is the latest LaTeX news, with the description<br class="">of the second update to LaTeX released in 2021 (version of 2021-11-15).<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>In addition, the previous TUGboat issue, 42:2 (the TUG'21 conference<br class="">proceedings), is now fully public: <a href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-2/" class="">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-2/</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>The season is not only a cause for celebration, but also an occasion<br class="">to remember those who are, unfortunately, no longer with us. Sadly,<br class="">in the recent issue of TUGboat there are several obituaries for the<br class="">people we recently lost: Walter Schmidt, Chuck Geschke,<br class="">Rog\'erio Brito, Michael Spivak. These people left a lasting imprint<br class="">in our community.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>In my column in TUB 42:3 I talked about the continuity of TeX<br class="">development, and the way our community deals with the change of package<br class="">maintainers. As if to stress the relevance of the topic, Christian<br class="">Hupfer recently announced he is dropping the maintenance of his<br class="">xassoccnt package and welcomes new maintainers to take over this useful code.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>I already mentioned that until the end of the year Pearson is offering TUG<br class="">members an exclusive 40% discount for the Jubilee printings of Computers<br class="">and Typesetting by Donald E. Knuth (see TUG members area,<br class=""><a href="https://tug.org/members/" class="">https://tug.org/members/</a> for the discount code). Recently the PDFs were<br class="">updated; if you already bought the electronic edition, you may download<br class="">the updated version at no charge after logging in to the publisher site.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>Those living in the San Francisco Bay Area might know about the very<br class="">interesting museum of typography, The Letterform Archive. Recently<br class="">the museum made their first exhibition, ``Bauhaus Typography at 100'',<br class="">available online:<br class=""><a href="https://letterformarchive.org/news/view/exhibition-no.1-bauhaus-typography-at-100" class="">https://letterformarchive.org/news/view/exhibition-no.1-bauhaus-typography-at-100</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>New CTAN packages in November:<br class="">- formal-grammar, typeset formal grammars;<br class="">- hep-acronym, an acronym extension for glossaries;<br class="">- hep-bibliography, extension of biblatex for high energy physics;<br class="">- hep-float, convenience package for float placement;<br class="">- hep-font, Latin modern extended by computer modern;<br class="">- hep-math, extended math macros;<br class="">- hep-math-font, extended Greek and sans-serif math;<br class="">- hep-text, list and text extensions;<br class="">- hep-title, extensions for the title page;<br class="">- luafindfont, search fonts in the LuaTeX font database;<br class="">- njuvisual, display logos related to Nanjing University;<br class="">- snaptodo, a todo that snaps to the closer side;<br class="">- zref-clever, clever LaTeX cross-references based on zref.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);" class=""><br class=""></span></font>Happy TeXing to all,<br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Boris Veytsman (TUG President)<br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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