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<td>Jun22 TUG news: Knuth's music, conferences, tugboat,
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Dear TeXers,<br>
<br>
One of the prized items in my collection is the program of the
world<br>
premiere of DEK's Fantasia Apocalyptica, his musical
interpretation of<br>
the Book of Revelation. It was performed on the occasion of
Knuth's<br>
80th birthday at Studio Acusticum in Pite\aa, Sweden by Jan
Overduin on<br>
Wednesday, 10 January 2018. The description of Fantasia
Apocalyptica<br>
can be found here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html">https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html</a>. The page<br>
includes Knuth's musings, scores, and links to the audio and video<br>
files.<br>
<br>
One of the most popular images from the Book of Revelation is four<br>
horsemen in Chapter 6. The interpretation of the first horseman is
not<br>
universally agreed upon, but many people associate him with<br>
Pestilence. The other three are named more explicitly: they are
War,<br>
Famine and Death. It seems that since 2018 we have seen world<br>
pestilence and a European war. Experts worry about at least local<br>
famines caused by this war and the consequent disruption of the
export<br>
of wheat. Of course, these events increase the toll of death among<br>
us. While the scale of these calamities is relatively limited<br>
compared to the end of world, each individual death is a universal<br>
tragedy, and even the "limited" scale boggles the mind.<br>
<br>
Knuth writes that the Book of Revelation is, in his opinion,
"totally<br>
mystical and spiritual rather than literal or prophetical. It
probably<br>
was written to provide an underground movement (early
Christianity)<br>
with some coded messages of hope." The last part is very
important.<br>
Indeed the message we should extract from it and from the world is<br>
hope.<br>
<br>
One of the things that make me hopeful is that we continue to work
and<br>
create even in these hard times. I am happy to report that the<br>
Polish TeX Group GUST after a long hiatus announces BachoTeX to be
held<br>
September 21--25, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gust.org.pl/bachotex/2022-en">https://gust.org.pl/bachotex/2022-en</a>. At the
last<br>
BachoTeX in 2019 we helped a group of Ukrainian students to
attend. I<br>
hope we can do it again.<br>
<br>
Speaking of conferences, the deadline for submissions to our
flagship<br>
meeting, TUG 2022, is close: June 15. Please do not forget to
register<br>
for the conference. I also strongly encourage you to submit a
talk. As<br>
in the two previous years, the conference is virtual and free. See
all<br>
the details at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2022/">https://tug.org/tug2022/</a>. Please note that this<br>
conference will be accompanied by the Annual General Meeting of
TUG.<br>
<br>
Other important meetings are the DANTE meeting 2022,<br>
Otto-von-Guericke-Universit\"at, Magdeburg, Germany, June 23-25,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2022">https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2022</a>,<br>
and the 16th ConTeXt Meeting,<br>
Dreifelden, Germany, Sept. 12-18, 2022,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/">https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/</a>.<br>
<br>
In other news, TUGboat 43:1 has been mailed to current TUG
members.<br>
Among its papers are a discussion of the Markdown language,
tutorials on<br>
l3build and tikz-cd, a review of the long-expected second edition
of a<br>
LaTeX beginner's book by Stefan Kottwitz, and much more. Following
our<br>
policy, TUGboat issue 42:3 is now open for the general public (the<br>
current issue is available for TUG members only).<br>
<br>
Speaking of free journals, ACM has opened its journal archives for<br>
1951--2000; see the discussion here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/">https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/</a>.<br>
<br>
New CTAN packages in May (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg">https://ctan.org/pkg</a>):<br>
- beamerthemeamurmaple, a new modern beamer theme;<br>
- chinesechess, typeset Chinese chess with l3draw;<br>
- fixdif, macros for typesetting differential operators;<br>
- mathsemantics, semantic math commands in LaTeX<br>
- prettytok, prettyprint token lists;<br>
- sidenotesplus, place referenced notes, alerts, figures and
tables;<br>
- simpleicons, simple icons for LaTeX;<br>
- srbtiks, the STIX2 font for Serbian and Macedonian;<br>
- symbats3, macros to use the Symbats3 dingbats fonts;<br>
- thermodynamics, macros for multicomponent thermodynamics
documents.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing!<br>
<br>
-Boris Veytsman (TUG President)<br>
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