TUG 2025 - Program

The schedule for the TUG 2025 conference follows. (Program as PDF.)

The talks will be streamed live during the conference on the TUG YouTube channel, at no charge (donations appreciated!). They will also be recorded and posted on YouTube after the conference.

Thursday, July 17

09:50  Gather in Hyatt lobby for transport to STM campus for workshop
11:00  LaTeX developers' workshop: Tagging PDF documents (until 16.00)
16:00  Return from STM campus to Hyatt
17:30  Reception at the Hyatt Regency (until 19.30)

Friday, July 18

08:30  Registration
08:55  Boris Veytsman Opening
  Session chair: Erik Nijenhuis
09:00  Rob Schrauwen Keynote: True but irrelevant: Twenty-five years of scientific content standards - slides
10:00  Erik Braun The state of CTAN: 2025 - slides
10:40  Break
11:00  Vrajarāja Govinda How we use XeLaTeX at our ashram - slides
11:40  Jean-Michel Hufflen What to teach about (La)TeX? - slides
12:20  Lunch
  Session chair: Julin Shaji
13:35  Participant group photo
13:50  Frank Mittelbach How accessible are typical PDFs and how accessible could they be? - slides
14:30  Ulrike Fischer Status of the LaTeX Tagged PDF Project, 2025: Tagging of math - slides
15:10  Ross Moore Tagging of highly-structured information; case study: Bibliographies, using biblatex (remote) - slides
15:50  Break
16:10  CV Radhakrishnan Digital archiving of Malayalam content - slides - preprint
16:50  Doris Behrendt, Bernd Busse How we use (La)TeX in the CrypTool project - slides - preprint
17:30  (end)
18:45  (optional free excursion) Gather in Hyatt lobby for guided night tour of city (until approx. 21.00); may be interchanged with the following evening excursion

Saturday, July 19

  Session chair: Doris Behrendt
09:00  Rajeesh KV, Radhakrishnan CV An OpenType font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting - slides - preprint
09:40  Vít Starý Novotný Expltools: Development tools for expl3 programmers - slides
10:20  Break
10:50  Saravanan Murugaiah, Mukesh Subramaniam Typographic branches from a (LaTeX2)Word root - slides
11:30  Salil B., निरंजन (Niranjan) Symbols to improve the processes of construction and comprehension of tables - slides
12:10  Lunch
  Session chair: Sachi Purcal
13:40  S.K. Venkatesan Alphabetic script and logo-syllabic script: A contradiction between form and content - slides - preprint
14:20  Vaishnavi Murthy K Y Encoding Tulu-Tigalari: A journey to Unicode standardization - slides
15:00  निरंजन (Niranjan) Linguistics with LinguisTiX - slides - preprint
15:40  Break
16:10  Norman Gray Beastie: A new (and the old) language for BibTeX databases (remote) - slides
16:50  Martin J. Osborne text2bib: Converting plain text references into BibTeX format (remote)
17:30  (end)
18:45  (optional free excursion) Gather in Hyatt lobby for classical concert/dance performance (until approx. 20.30-21.00); may be interchanged with the previous evening excursion

Sunday, July 20

  Session chair: Suki Venkat
09:00  T Rishikesan Nair, Rajagopal CV, Apu V Efficiently managing XML documents with TeX and tagged PDF enabled - slides
09:40  Erik Nijenhuis Modular document engineering with XDP: From templates to intertwined PDFs - slides
10:20  Break
10:50  Doris Behrendt The LaTeX Village at the Chaos Communication Camp—how it started, how it continues - slides
11:30  Veeraraghavan Balasubramanian Challenges faced by the publishing industry - slides
12:10  Lunch
13:10  TUG Annual General Meeting, chair: Boris Veytsman (not streamed)
  Session chair: निरंजन (Niranjan)
13:40  Boris Veytsman A system for editorial comments - slides
14:20  Rahul Krishnan S, Apu V, T Rishikesan Nair, Rajagopal CV Implementing tagged and accessible PDF in Neptune - slides
15:00  Mathias Jakobsen Best-effort TeX parsing for interactive editing - slides
15:40  Break
16:10  Narayana Bhattathiri Calligraphy demonstration and workshop
17:30  (end)
19:00  Banquet at the Hyatt Regency

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