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<td> [tex-announce] Jan22 TUG news: celebrations, videos,
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<td> Mon, 3 Jan 2022 16:06:10 -0700</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>
It is difficult to believe, but we now are already living in the
year<br>
2022. It is now becoming a tradition to celebrate with a new<br>
production of the Tikzducks team. Here is the link to their 2021<br>
extravaganza: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/660399886">https://vimeo.com/660399886</a><br>
<br>
Happy post-holiday days to everybody in the community - and happy
and<br>
safe New Year!<br>
<br>
Since the letter omicron is in the news, this issue of Numerophile<br>
might be relevant: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtfKMH6X44">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtfKMH6X44</a>. It<br>
reveals an unexpected connection between omicron and the digit
zero<br>
(and the number 70, by the way). About five minutes into the movie
DEK<br>
explains the big omicron, big omega and big theta notations.<br>
<br>
This is the time to renew your membership:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/join/">https://tug.org/join/</a><br>
Thanks for supporting TUG! If you are just starting your TeX and
TUG<br>
journey, take a look at our heavily discounted trial membership:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/trial/">https://tug.org/trial/</a><br>
<br>
Some people asked whether TeX is vulnerable to the recently found<br>
Log4j vulnerability. The answer can be found here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/texlive/cve-log4j.html">https://tug.org/texlive/cve-log4j.html</a>. In short, we are safe.<br>
<br>
Upcoming conferences in 2022 include:<br>
- Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century: France, June 8--10, 2022,<br>
submissions deadline Jan 10,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grafematik2022.sciencesconf.org/">https://grafematik2022.sciencesconf.org/</a><br>
- The 16th ConTeXt meeting: Germany, Sept. 12--18, 2022,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/">http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/</a><br>
<br>
Submissions for the next issue of TUGboat are welcome. Please send
them before March 31, and early submissions are always
appreciated:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/">https://tug.org/TUGboat/</a><br>
<br>
Due to the pandemic we did not have a regular Annual General
Meeting<br>
(AGM) for two years: it was cancelled in 2020 and conducted online
under<br>
ad hoc rules in 2021. The Board has now developed procedures for
an<br>
online AGM and also used this occasion to revise the rules for an<br>
in-person one. The amended bylaws were adopted in December:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/bylaws/">https://tug.org/bylaws/</a><br>
<br>
New CTAN packages in December:<br>
- autopuncitems, automatically punctuate lists;<br>
- bfh-ci, corporate design for Bern University of Applied
Sciences;<br>
- codebox, highlighted source code in a fancy box;<br>
- kaytannollista-latexia, practical manual for LaTeX (Finnish);<br>
- kinematikz, design kinematic chains and mechanisms;<br>
- mathalphabets, introduction to mathematical alphabets;<br>
- numerica-plus, iteration and recurrence relations: finding fixed<br>
points, zeros and extrema of functions;<br>
- numerica-tables, create multi-column tables of mathematical
functions;<br>
- pst-hsb, curves with continuous colours;<br>
- rbt-mathnotes, Rebecca Turner'ss personal macros and styles for<br>
typesetting mathematics notes;<br>
- termsim, simulate Windows 10, Ubuntu, and Mac terminals;<br>
- texlogsieve, filter and summarize LaTeX log files;<br>
- unbtex, a class for theses at University of Brasilia (UnB);<br>
- wrapfig2, wrap text around figures.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing,<br>
Boris Veytsman (TUG President)<br>
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