The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a membership-based not-for-profit organization, founded in 1980, for anyone who uses the TeX typesetting system created by Donald Knuth and/or is interested in typography and font design.
Please consider joining TUG (trial memberships available for new members) to support use and development of TeX and friends. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter (tex-announce) if you like (automatically sent to all members).
If you're new to TeX and are looking for a system to install, or have questions to ask, click here to get started.
If you're looking for help, you can get community support via: a q&a site (tex.stackexchange.com), forum (latex.org), reddit, public mailing list (texhax), and in other ways.
News
(blogs)
- The pretest for TeX Live 2021 is in process now, for anyone who'd like to help with the upcoming release.
- TUG 2021 election results are available online and will be printed in the next TUGboat. There is no need for a ballot this year. Great thanks to Taco Hoekwater, Will Robertson, and Herbert Voß, who are stepping down from the board this year after many years of service.
- TUG membership forms for 2021 are posted for your joining/renewing pleasure (automatic renewals are underway). For anyone new to TUG, we continue to offer a trial membership with full benefits for $30.
- TUGboat 41:3 has been mailed to current TUG members. The issue is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 41:2, the TUG'20 proceedings, is now publicly available. (Also videos.) Submissions for the next issue are appreciated and welcome: the deadline for 42:1 is March 31.
- TeX Live 2020 and MacTeX 2020 and proTeXt for 2020 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN (TL, MacTeX, proTeXt). The TeX Collection 2020 DVD will be sent to TUG and other user group members; it can also be ordered through the TUG store.
Upcoming events (comprehensive meeting list)
- DANTE meeting, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, Germany, March 10-12.
- A Legacy Preserved: The Cary Collection and the School of Printing, April 16, online via Zoom, with curator Steven Galbraith. Advance registration is required, but free. The registration form is geared toward RIT students and staff; general audience members can use "other" for RIT Affiliation, and "none" for the College/Division, Department, and Title fields.
- GuIT 2020, online, October 31, 2020.
- 14th ConTeXt Meeting, Prague-Sibřina, Czech Republic, Sept. 6-12, 2020.
- TUG 2020 was held online, July 24-26, 2020. The program of all talks is available. Videos of all presentations are posted on the TUG YouTube channel.
- BachoTeX 2019 - TeX old but gold: the durability of typographic TeXnologies; Bachotek, Poland, May 1-5, 2019.
TUG is a not-for-profit organization by, for, and of its members, also representing the interests of TeX users worldwide. If you use any TeX-related programs (TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Metafont, MetaPost, Texinfo, et al.), please consider joining TUG (or another TeX user group). Memberships and donations are tax-deductible in the US.
TUG membership benefits include our journal TUGboat (available both in print and online) and the TeX Collection software: TeX Live, proTeXt, MacTeX, snapshot of CTAN. TUG also runs an annual TeX conference, among other activities.
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) is the primary repository for TeX-related software on the Internet. CTAN has many thousands of items; its package list, topic cloud, and CTAN search page can help you find what you need.
Latest CTAN
updates
- axodraw2
- lua-typo
- apa7
- lipsum
- babel
- cjk-ko
- luatexko
- luavlna
- l3backend
- graphics-def
- lni
- xespotcolor
- gregoriotex
- thaispec
- pwebmac
- tzplot
- rec-thy
- newpax
- ucharclasses
- reledmac
- exam
- elpres
- chemfig
- hyperref
- mcf2graph
- schemata
- nameauth
- babel-german
- pst-optexp
- dehyph-exptl