TeX Users Group (TUG)
Users Group
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.
Join or
renew with TUG
trial
memberships
available for new members)
to support use and development of TeX and friends. All TUG memberships
are for the calendar year, and include all benefits for the year no
matter when you join.
If you're
new to TeX
, we
recommend installing TeX Live (
Windows
macOS
GNU/Linux/Unix
). The
Learn LaTeX
site provides an
interactive online tutorial for creating documents with LaTeX. Our
getting started page
contains additional
resources for beginners.
If you're looking for help
, you can get community
support via:
q&a site
(tex.stackexchange.com),
forum
(latex.org),
public mailing list
(texhax@tug.org),
reddit
and
in other ways
Subscribe to our
monthly newsletter
if you like (open to all,
automatically sent to members).
News
blogs
TeX Live 2026
and
MacTeX 2026
have been released.
They are primarily distributed online through
CTAN
. More info:
TL
MacTeX
A new TUG membership
poster
is available; it's oriented towards STEM departments and
organizations. We greatly appreciate any posts, electronically or
physically, of this one-page flyer.
TUGboat 46:3
has been mailed to current TUG members; it is also available
online and from the
TUG store
In addition, prior TUGboat issue
46:2
is now publicly available.
Upcoming events
meeting list
EuroBachoTeX
2026
, in Bachotek, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2026.
This year's theme: “TeX vs. AI”:
Call for papers
registration form
fees and financial info
announcement
OSSConf 2026
, July 1-3, 2026, at the University of
Žilina, Slovakia, will have a dedicated TeX+R session,
and several TeX-related workshops.
The conference will be multilingual, but primarily in Czech and Slovak.
Documents in English:
Conference invitation
poster
Bridging the gap: R, LaTeX, and the Future of Open Source at OSSConf
2026
, a one page description of the conference, including the LaTeX
document engineering track.
TUG 2026
Alt Hotel Calgary East Village
, Calgary, Canada,
July 17-19 (Friday-Sunday),
with a
LaTeX developers' workshop
with a LaTeX developers' workshop
on Thursday, July 16.
Visa/etravel application
is
advised to be started as soon as possible.
Bursary application available
(for financial assistance): deadline April 3.
Register for the
conference
: early bird deadline April 24.
Call for papers
: deadline
April 24, while early submissions are
greatly appreciated. This will primarily be an in-person conference,
but remote presentations are welcome.
Hotel reservations
deadline June 16; booking early is highly advisable.
ConTeXt
Meeting 2026
: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026,
Theme: “Focussing”. (Other topics also welcome!)
Recent events
Structuring your research story
, a talk by Jean-luc Doumont
of
Principiae
, March 31,
2026, 19:45 to 22:00 in Leuven (campus Gasthuisberg), Belgium. No
charge, in-person only.
Gutenberg - Knuth - Zapf - Lamport - LaTeX
, March 19, 2026:
Frank Mittelbach will receive an honorary doctorate from Masaryk
University Brno for his life's work on research in document
engineering and making LaTeX what it is today. The ceremony will be in
the morning and he will give a talk in the afternoon. Both events are
open to the public. Congratulations, Frank!
DANTE spring meeting
, March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH,
Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
The Shape of Letters:
From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald
Knuth
, an invited talk (Jan. 4) by Étienne Ghys at
the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 4-7, 2026, Washington DC.
GUTenberg general assembly
, online,
November 16, 2025 at 3 p.m.
December 4, 2025, Valentin Dao
will give a
presentation
on his
intexgral
package and expl3
syntax.
January 8, 2026, Jean Abou Samra will give a
presentation
on
Lilypond
GuIT
2025
, Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025.
Journeé GUTenberg 2025
annual meeting,
École normale supérieure, Paris,
November 8, 2025.
GUTenberg:
Exposés mensuels
, online, September 10, 2025.
Videoconference, in French, by Didier Verna on “Traitement des
problèmes de similarité dans la justification de
paragraphe : une extension du Knuth-Plass”.
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). TUG also runs an
annual TeX
conference
, and supports updates to the
TeX Collection
software:
TeX Live
MacTeX
snapshot of CTAN
, 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
NewComputerModern
fontools
register-transfer-level
pdfmanagement
AutoLaTeX
nxtlatex
spim-phdthesisthemes
query-astro
ciad-beamertheme
hecthese
biblatex-abs-annote
utbmciad-report
piton
luatexja
xreview
cardgame
fonttable
zebra
ClawXiv
fretplot
polyglossia
PyLuaTeX
babel-german
onlinebrief24
tokstools
tablerIcons
lucide-icons
cprotect
KKsymbols
ltmermaid
NxuThesis
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