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<td>TUG membership renewal for 2023, and first newsletter</td>
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<td>Wed, 4 Jan 2023 00:34:00 +0100</td>
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Dear TUG members,<br>
<br>
Happy New Year, and thank you for being a member of TUG! We hope
you<br>
will renew your membership for 2023. The first newsletter for the
new<br>
year is included below.<br>
<br>
To renew online, or by fax or mail, please visit the TUG
membership page:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/renew">https://tug.org/renew</a><br>
<br>
If you may have already renewed, please contact the office.<br>
<br>
TUG membership fees are unchanged for 2023. If you renew before
March<br>
31, the fee is $85 for regular members, reduced to $55 for
students,<br>
seniors, and other special categories.<br>
<br>
TUGboat and the TeX Collection software are expected to be
released<br>
later this year as usual.<br>
<br>
We appreciate your past support, and hope you will continue your
TUG<br>
membership.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Robin Laakso, TUG Executive Director<br>
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Jan23 news: tug'23, election, tikzlings, museum of printing,
mastodon, ctan<br>
<br>
I would like to share with you the toast we had at the recent<br>
celebration of the New Year. We drank wishing for 2022 to be the<br>
worst year for us all. I hope to see a better future for us in
2023.<br>
<br>
One of the most important events of 2023 for the TeX Users Group
is, of<br>
course, the TUG meeting. This year we will try to make it in
person.<br>
It will take place at Hotel Collegium Leoninum, Noeggerathstrasse
34,<br>
53111 Bonn, Germany, on July 14-16 with a developers' workshop on
the<br>
tagging of pdf documents on July 13. Registration form and all the<br>
information are posted at the usual place:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2023/">https://tug.org/tug2023/</a><br>
<br>
There is a firm hotel reservation deadline of April 1. The
deadline<br>
for abstracts is April 10, and early bird registration discount
ends on<br>
April 15. Also, it seems that airline tickets for the summer are
quickly<br>
selling out, so members outside Europe might want to buy theirs
early.<br>
The TUG Annual Meeting will take place during the conference.<br>
<br>
2023 is an election year for TUG. The terms of President and eight
other<br>
board members are open. The deadline for nominations is March 1,
2023.<br>
All the information:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/election/">https://tug.org/election/</a><br>
<br>
It would be remiss of me not to mention one of the brightest<br>
events of December, The Great Tikzlings Christmas Extravaganza
2022:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/780457002">https://vimeo.com/780457002</a><br>
<br>
Submissions for the first TUGboat issue of 2023 are accepted until
March 26.<br>
As one of the editors of the journal I have the privilege to read<br>
the articles in advance; one of the most interesting is the column
by<br>
Barbara Beeton. In this column she mentions the conversation
between<br>
Frank Romano and Matthew Carter at the Museum of Printing. The<br>
conversation is available on YouTube in three parts:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFdNLPEC9s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFdNLPEC9s</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOPG5KosiA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOPG5KosiA</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k60MjUhBeDA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k60MjUhBeDA</a><br>
<br>
By the way, the YouTubeChannel of the Museum of Printing is quite<br>
interesting, and you might want to subscribe to it at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/@museumofprinting">https://www.youtube.com/@museumofprinting</a>. I assume you already<br>
subscribed to our own channel at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/@texusersgroup">https://www.youtube.com/@texusersgroup</a>.<br>
Speaking of social media, we decided to add to our Twitter
presence<br>
(@TeXUsersGroup) the one in the Mastodon Fediverse<br>
(@TeXUserGroup@techhub.social). We also set up a crosspost link<br>
between these accounts.<br>
<br>
Jonathan Fine asked us to remind everyone about the special issue
of<br>
his TeX hour about TeX accessibility, scheduled for January 19,<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texhour.github.io/2023/01/19/stem-access-author-reader/">https://texhour.github.io/2023/01/19/stem-access-author-reader/</a>.<br>
Among other topics it will discuss recent developments at arXiv,<br>
see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_research_report.html">https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_research_report.html</a><br>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07286">https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07286</a>.<br>
<br>
New CTAN packages in December 2022 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org">https://ctan.org</a>):<br>
<br>
- bibcop, style checker for .bib files;<br>
- blopentype, a basic LuaTeX OpenType handler;<br>
- digestif, editor plugin for LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc.;<br>
- gradient-text, decorate text with linear gradient colors;<br>
- hfutexam, exam class for Hefei University of Technology (China);<br>
- ibrackets, intelligent brackets;<br>
- jourcl, cover letter for journal submissions;<br>
- luacomplex, operations on complex numbers inside LaTeX documents
using Lua;<br>
- luagcd, computation of gcd of integers inside LaTeX using Lua;<br>
- luamaths, standard mathematical operations inside LaTeX
documents using Lua;<br>
- luamodulartables, generate modular addition and multiplication
tables;<br>
- luaset, set operations inside LaTeX documents using Lua;<br>
- maze, generate random mazes;<br>
- namedtensor, macros for named tensor notation;<br>
- pdfmsym, PDF Math Symbols - various drawn mathematical symbols;<br>
- pst-flags, draw flags of countries using PSTricks;<br>
- pythonimmediate, library to run Python code;<br>
- resmes, measure restriction symbol in LaTeX;<br>
- scikgtex, mark research contributions in scientific documents
and<br>
embed them in PDF metadata;<br>
- tikz-mirror-lens, spherical mirrors and lenses in TikZ;<br>
- tsvtemplate, apply a template to a tsv file;<br>
- ukbill, a class for typesetting UK legislation;<br>
- xput, declarative desktop publishing with LaTeX.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing!<br>
<br>
Boris Veytsman<br>
TUG President<br>
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