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<td> Feb22 TUG news: happy new year, gutenberg bible,
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<td> Thu, 3 Feb 2022 19:23:43 -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>
February 1 is the Lunar New Year 2022, the most important date in
the<br>
traditional Chinese calendar. I congratulate all TeXers who
celebrate<br>
it and wish us all a happy and fruitful Year of the Tiger.<br>
<br>
While the life in many countries is slowly going back to normal,
new<br>
variants of virus sometimes shut down or severely limit theaters,<br>
museums and libraries. This makes virtual museums especially
important.<br>
I have spent hours enjoying digital exhibitions, and would like to
share<br>
with you one of them: the Yale University Library has digitized
their<br>
copy of the Gutenberg Bible; take a look at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3391099">https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3391099</a><br>
<br>
In other news, the TeX Live team has reissued the HTML version of
the manual:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html">https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html</a><br>
This version, thanks to the new features of tex4ht, is compliant
with<br>
accessibility guidelines. Therefore TeX Live is now fully
compliant with<br>
US and EU accessibility requirements, which is reflected in the
updated<br>
VPAT statement at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat">https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat</a>. And, by the way,<br>
we encourage releasing updates to packages and programs before the<br>
TeX Live pretest starts later this month
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/texlive/">https://tug.org/texlive/</a>).<br>
<br>
The easy creation of accessible documents with TeX is an ongoing
task.<br>
While tex4ht helps to create accessible HTML, the efforts of the
LaTeX3<br>
team make the direct creation of accessible PDF come closer. For
those<br>
interested in reading, testing, or otherwise contributing, see<br>
the PDF Accessibility TeXnical Working Group web page:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/twg/accessibility/">https://tug.org/twg/accessibility/</a><br>
<br>
Speaking of output formats, the LaTeXML project offers another way
to<br>
create accessible output. Recently it announced a huge
breakthrough<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/dginev/status/1488157927001268231">https://twitter.com/dginev/status/1488157927001268231</a>):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ar5iv.org">https://ar5iv.org</a>. It is a great preview site, automatically<br>
converting arXiv preprints into HTML5 (just replace X with 5 in a
url).<br>
LaTeXML is available from:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://math.nist.gov/~BMiller/LaTeXML/">https://math.nist.gov/~BMiller/LaTeXML/</a><br>
It is a difficult technical problem to include it in TeX Live, but<br>
perhaps that will happen at some point.<br>
<br>
On another front, we have started planning for the TUG'22
conference. It<br>
will again be wholly online, and take place from July 22-24. More<br>
details will be forthcoming, but early submissions are welcome;
the<br>
conference committee can be reached at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tug2022@tug.org">tug2022@tug.org</a>. Nothing
much on<br>
the web yet, but updates will happen here (as usual):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2022/">https://tug.org/tug2022/</a><br>
<br>
TUGboat: the deadline for the next (regular) issue is March 31.
Your<br>
submissions on all things about TeX and typesetting are welcome.
The<br>
instructions for authors are available at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html">https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html</a><br>
<br>
In TUG news, if your membership includes automatic renewal, it is<br>
probably renewed by now. If it is not, it is a good time to check<br>
that you did not forget to renew. You can log in to the TUG
members area<br>
to check your current status:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/members/">https://tug.org/members/</a><br>
And you can renew at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/renew/">https://tug.org/renew/</a><br>
This year our membership forms use PayPal by default: it is faster
and<br>
less expensive for us. However, if you cannot or do not want to
use<br>
PayPal, the usual form we've used in the past is available at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/forms/current/memberalt.html">https://tug.org/forms/current/memberalt.html</a><br>
Please use whichever is better for you.<br>
<br>
CTAN packages in January:<br>
- altsubsup, subscripts and superscripts with square brackets;<br>
- biblatex-readbbl, read a .bbl file created by biber;<br>
- bmstu, a LaTeX class for Bauman Moscow State Technical
University;<br>
- citation-style-language, bibliography formatting with the<br>
XML-based Citation Style Language;<br>
- concmath-otf, Concrete-based OpenType math font;<br>
- coop-writing, support for cooperative writing and editorial
comments;<br>
- dbshow, store and display data with custom filters, orders,
styles;<br>
- hamnosys, a font for sign languages;<br>
- kanbun, typeset kanbun-kundoku with support for kanbun
annotation;<br>
- latex-lab-dev, LaTeX laboratory: Development pre-release;<br>
- llncs, document class and bibliography for Springer Lecture
Notes in<br>
Computer Science (LNCS);<br>
- pascaltriangle, draw beautiful Pascal (Yanghui) triangles;<br>
- pgf-interference, drawing interference patterns with PGF/TikZ;<br>
- sillypage, John Cleese's Silly Walk as page numbering style;<br>
- texlogfilter, filter LaTeX engines' output or log file;<br>
- yb-book, template for YB-branded books.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing!<br>
Boris Veytsman, TUG President<br>
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