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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 ([email protected]), reddit, and in other ways.

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter if you like (open to all, automatically sent to members).

News (blogs)

• New book review: A Grammar of Typography: Classical Book Design in the Digital Age, by Mark Argetsinger, reviewed by Mitchell Gerrard.
• Preliterate Programming: Writings & Interviews, edited by Mitchell Gerrard, is a new book published by TUG (hardcover, 305 pages, 6.14x9.21in, ISBN-13 978-0-9824626-5-2). It is an anthology of writings on the idea that programs are intended for humans to read as much as for machines to run. Both physical books and ebooks are available through TUG. A review of Preliterate Programming by Andreas Scherer is also available.
• 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)

• 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.

• 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 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 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.

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