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<td>[tex-announce] Apr23 news: conferences, teX live, The
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<td>Mon, 3 Apr 2023 19:37:22 -0600</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>
TUG 2023 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2023/">https://tug.org/tug2023/</a>) is getting closer. The
conference<br>
will be held July 14-16 in Bonn, Germany, with a developers' PDF<br>
workshop on July 13. DANTE will also hold a meeting at the same
venue on<br>
July 13.<br>
<br>
April 10 is the deadline for both bursary (tug.org/bursary) and<br>
presentation submissions (tug.org/tug2023/cfp.html), and<br>
April 15 for early bird discounted conference registration<br>
(tug.org/tug2023/register.html).<br>
<br>
The TUG'23 conference hotel in Bonn is now sold out (except for a
few<br>
individual nights, but nothing for the whole conference). If you'd
like<br>
advice on choosing alternate lodging, feel free to email the
conference<br>
committee at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tug2023@tug.org">tug2023@tug.org</a>, and the local organizers will happy
to help.<br>
<br>
In other conference news, the deadline for BachoTeX registration
is<br>
extended until April 11. BachoTeX will be held April 29-May 3.<br>
As Jerzy Ludwichowski notes, there are compelling reasons to come:<br>
- we have not met for a long time<br>
- the conference program is (as always ;-) very interesting and<br>
entertaining (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/program">https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/program</a>),<br>
to mention some items of the still being extended program:<br>
- Andrzej Tomaszewski with his fascinating book projects,<br>
- Hans Hagen's series on ConTeXt MkXL and the LuaMetaTeX engine,<br>
- Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and the GUST e-foundry's font engine,<br>
- Piotr Bolek about the monumental Project Kolberg,<br>
- workshops by Willy Egger, BarBara Wili\'nska and Kasia
Burakowska,<br>
- West African djembe and dundun drumming concert,<br>
- beer tasting/appreciating,<br>
- bonfire,<br>
- conference dinner,<br>
- and, and, and ...<br>
- our special guests will be 5 students from Odesa University,
Ukraine.<br>
The registration is at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/registration/registration-form">https://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2023-en/registration/registration-form</a><br>
<br>
To continue the topic of conferences, the 17th International
ConTeXt<br>
meeting will take place September 10-16th, 2023, in
Prague-Sib\v{r}ina,<br>
Czech Republic.<br>
<br>
TeX Live 2023 is out. You may consider installing it from<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/texlive/">https://tug.org/texlive/</a>. The accessibility report for it can be
found<br>
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat">https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-vpat</a> (thanks to the ongoing work in
LaTeX,<br>
that VPAT document is itself generally accessible in HTML and PDF<br>
formats, though some issues remain). DVDs should start mailing by
the<br>
end of May. TeX Live is our flagship distribution. As of today it<br>
includes 7667 packages. Many thanks to the thousands of volunteers
who<br>
submitted and maintain the packages and the infrastructure of
TeXLive.<br>
<br>
In other news, Frank Mittelbach and Ulrike Fischer have finished
the<br>
new, third edition of The LaTeX Companion. The release is expected<br>
mid-May. You can pre-order it here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/l/tlc3">https://tug.org/l/tlc3</a><br>
If you start the order from the links on latex-project.org or
tug.org,<br>
you will get a discount and the authors will get a small extra<br>
commission.<br>
<br>
The Companion has been a desktop reference for many LaTeXnicians
for<br>
almost thirty years. The third edition discusses many new packages
and<br>
developments, as well as the user-facing aspects of the
long-awaited<br>
LaTeX3. You can download sample pages of all chapters at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://latex-project.org/news/2023/03/17/TLC3/">https://latex-project.org/news/2023/03/17/TLC3/</a><br>
and the sources and outputs of all examples in the book are
available at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples">https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples</a><br>
<br>
Finally, new CTAN packages in March:<br>
- alchemist, typeset alchemist and astrological symbols;<br>
- babel-lithuanian, Babel support for documents written in
Lithuanian;<br>
- egpeirce, draw existential graph invented by Charles S. Peirce;<br>
- emo, emoji for all (LaTeX engines);<br>
- fenetrecas, commands for CAS-like windows (Xcas or Geogebra) in
TikZ;<br>
- fistrum, access to 150 paragraphs of Lorem Fistrum very dummy
text;<br>
- korigamik, typeset articles using KorigamiK's document class;<br>
- mpchess, drawing chess boards and positions with MetaPost;<br>
- outilsgeomtikz, some geometric tools, with TikZ;<br>
- tangocolors, use colors from the Tango color palette;<br>
- tikz-nfold, triple, quadruple, and n-fold paths with TikZ;<br>
- uvaletter, uofficial letterhead template for the University of
Amsterdam.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing!<br>
Boris Veytsman, TUG President<br>
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