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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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.
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If you're looking for help, you can get community
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Upcoming events
(meeting list)
- GuIT
2025 , Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025.
- Journeé GUTenberg 2025 annual meeting,
École normale supérieure, Paris,
November 8, 2025.
- GUTenberg
Exposés mensuels , online video presentations, in French:
- DANTE spring meeting , March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH,
Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
- OSSConf 2026 , July 1-3, 2026, at the University of
Žilina, Slovakia, will have a dedicated TeX+R session. The
conference will be multilingual.
Recent events
- 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”.
- ConTeXt
Meeting 2025 : Chmielno, Poland, August 23-29, 2025,
at KREFTA, a site comparable to
BachoTeX.
Theme: “What if …” (other topics also welcome).
- TUG 2025 ,
Hyatt Regency,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India, July 18-20 (Friday-Sunday),
with a LaTeX developers' workshop
on Thursday, July 17.
The YouTube Live stream is available. Videos for individual talks
will be available as soon as possible.
- BachoTeX
2025 , in Bachotek, Poland, April 30-May 4, 2025.
This year's theme: “TeX in education”.
Call for papers.
- Face/Interface 2025 , Stanford University,
January 17-18, 2025. This conference is about global type design
human-computer interaction, and brings together scholars, designers,
technologists, and more, of all levels of experience. Several talks from the 2023 conference are available online.
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
CTAN RSS feed
- sttools
- latex-via-exemplos
- tkz-interval
- ArsenalMath
- beamertheme-bilkent-econ
- latex-tagging-status
- KKsymbols
- codedescribe
- ltx-talk
- aTableau
- rpgicons
- mismath
- l3backend-dev
- l3kernel-dev
- FHJ-Script
- panda
- xpeekahead
- marginalia
- arsenal-math
- minted-code
- cistercian
- beamertheme-tcolorbox
- xtufte
- pmdraw
- zeckendorf
- tikzquests
- latex-base-dev + latex-lab-dev
- keisennote