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.
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interactive online tutorial for creating documents with LaTeX. Our getting started page contains additional
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If you're looking for help, you can get community
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News
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- New book review:
How to Publish Your Book with LaTeX, by Clemens Lode,
reviewed by Jim Hefferon.
- TUGboat 47:2 ,
the TUG'26 proceedings,
is available online and from the TUG store,
and will be mailed to current TUG members soon.
In addition, prior TUGboat issue
47:1 is now publicly available.
Submissions for the next regular
issue are welcome and encouraged; the deadline
is October 23, 2026.
- 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.
Upcoming events
(meeting list)
- Unicode Technology Workshop : Unicode in the World,
October 20-23, 2026, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique
(ANRT), Nancy, France. Tutorials on Oct 20-21, talks on Oct 22-23.
Tickets available for partial or full days.
- DANTE spring 2027 meeting , April 8-10, 2027, University
of Ulm, Germany; tutorials, introduction, reception on April 7.
General meeting on April 10.
- TUG 2027 ,
will be held in Paris (France), in the summer; dates and
location will be announced as soon as they are known.
Recent events
- DANTE autumn meeting , Sept. 25-26, 2026, Ordix IT.
Short general meeting on Sept. 26th.
- ConTeXt
Meeting 2026 : Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026,
Theme: “Focussing”. (Other topics also welcome!)
- 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.
Videos for all TUG'26 talks are
available.
- 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.
- Webinar - Accessible Mathematical Content in PDF presented
June 16 by LaTeX team members and colleagues is available from the PDF Association web site. The web site
provides many related resources available as well.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
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
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