ISO PDF/UA-2 standard released - Examples made by LaTeX

Early 2024 the new Universal Accessibility standard for PDF (PDF/UA-2) was released. It is based on PDF 2.0 and improves accessibility compared to PDF/UA-1 (based on PDF 1.7) in many important aspects. ... You will find a collection of examples that conform to the new accessibility standard ...

Accessibility talks at DEIMS 2024 conference in Tokyo

The conference was held as a hybrid conference, i.e., all talks were recorded and also streamed and some talks were given remotely. The full playlist with all talks is available at ...

Talks from the TUG Conference 2023 in Bonn

The TUG conference 2023 in Bonn was a hybrid conference, i.e., all talks were recorded and also streamed. The recordings have been cut and cleaned up by a few relentless volunteers and are now available on YouTube...

LaTeX 2023-11-01 released and distributed

We sent the 2023-11-01 release of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN on Wednesday (the 1st) as planned. By now it should be available to most users via TeX Live or MiKTeX...

LaTeX 2023-06-01 released and distributed

With a few days delay (because of a performance issue we had to resolve first) we have submitted 2023-06-01 release of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN. It should have made its way into TeX Live for everyone by now (or pretty soon) ...

Final pre-release of LaTeX 2023-06-01 is available for testing

We submitted the final pre-release version for the 2023-06-01 LaTeX kernel to CTAN recently. It should have made its way into TeX Live for everyone by now (or pretty soon), so it's ready for users and developers to try.

"The LaTeX Companion", third edition, is available for pre-order

I'm happy to announce that the third edition of "The LaTeX Companion" has been sent to the printer and is now available for pre-order. It will be published by end of April or beginning of May...

Towards automated PDF tagging: Pre-release of LaTeX 2023-06-01 is available for testing

We submitted the second pre-release version for the 2023-06-01 LaTeX kernel to CTAN recently. It should have made its way into TeX Live (both 2022 and the 2023 pre-test) for everyone by now, so it's ready for users to try. It does not yet contain all updates to the LaTeX format that will become part of the standard in June, but the new code already provided is worth checking out.

PDF days Europe 2022 - Tagged and Accessible LaTeX

At the PDF days Europe 2022 conference, hosted by the PDF Association (PDFA) we gave a presentation on the current state of the 'LaTeX Tagged PDF' project, explaining the challenges, achievements, and our plans for the future ...

The November 2022 release of LaTeX is available

More or less on time we released the 2022-11-01 version of LaTeX and by now it should be available in all major distributions. This release is largely a consolidation release. However it also contains a very important enhancement ...

First pre-release of LaTeX 2022-11-01 is available for testing

We submitted the latest pre-release version for the 2022-11-01 LaTeX kernel to CTAN recently. It should have made its way into TeX Live...

Talks from the online TUG Conferences 2021 and 2022

For some reason it took a long time to get the 2021 talks cut and uploaded to YouTube and when that finally happened, I was in the middle of entering copy-editing corrections for the LaTeX Companion, 3rd edition and simply missed the opportunity to announce the talks and update the website to refer to it. Now with TUG 2022 also online this is more than overdue ...

June 2022 LaTeX release available

With a few days delay we released the 2022-06-01 version of LaTeX and by now it should be available in all major distributions. The release contains a number of important improvements and extensions that have be discussed in previous posts...

Final pre-release of LaTeX 2022-06-01 is available for testing

Last week we submitted the final pre-release version for the 2022-06-01 LaTeX kernel so it should be available in all major TeX distributions...

Pre-release of LaTeX 2022-06-01 is available for testing

We submitted the latest pre-release version for the 2022-06-01 LaTeX kernel to CTAN recently. It should have made its way into TeX Live...

Robin Fairbairns (1947 - 2022)

We are sad to report that our longtime friend, team member, and LaTeX contributor Robin Fairbairns died 25th February 2022, after a long period of ill health ...

LaTeX Graphics Companion 2ed is back in print! (update)

LaTeX Graphics Companion 2ed is back in print!

log4j vulnerability: LaTeX is not affected!

Fall 2021 LaTeX release available

Final pre-release of LaTeX 2021-11-15 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted the final pre-release of the LaTeX format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

Second pre-release of LaTeX 2021-11-15 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

Spring 2021 LaTeX release available

This year Spring in LaTeX's counting is somewhat delayed, but this fits the weather ...

Final pre-release of LaTeX 2021-06-01 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

Second pre-release of LaTeX 2021-05-01 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

A new team member?

Tagged PDF feasibility study published

At the TUG 2020 online conference we announced the start of a multi-year project to automatically generate tagged PDF with LaTeX which is an important aspect of producing accessible documents. ...

Tutorial on the L3 programming layer (expl3)

In Spring 2020 the LaTeX3 programming language `expl3` was integrated into the LaTeX format ...

Fall 2020 LaTeX release available

This release introduces a number of important enhancements ...

Talks from the online TUG Conference 2020

The first TUG online conference in July was quite a success with many interesting talks on many subjects of TeX usage and related topics ...

Final pre-release of LaTeX 2020-10-01 is available for testing

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Second pre-release of LaTeX 2020-10-01 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

New articles by project members

We have added five articles recently published in TUGboat to the site ...

Online TUG Conference 24-26 July 2020

You probably heard this already from other sources and maybe already registered, but if not, now is the time ...

First prerelease of LaTeX 2020-10-01 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

Spring 2020 LaTeX release available

This release introduces a number of important enhancements ...

Issues 11 and 12 of LaTeX3 news released

It has been a while since we published an issue on LaTeX3 development topics, but that doesn't mean nothing has happened in the meantime ...

Second prerelease of LaTeX 2020-02-02 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

First prerelease of LaTeX 2020-02-02 is available for testing

A few days ago we have submitted a new LaTeX development format to CTAN and by now it should be available to all users ...

New October 2019 LaTeX release available

We have released the October 2019 LaTeX distribution ...

Major news: LaTeX development formats are now available

... For users of the TeXLive and MikTeX distributions it is therefore now possible to test their documents and code against the upcoming LaTeX release with ease ...

New kids on the block (2)

I'm happy to be able to announce that Phelype Oleinik and Marcel Krüger have joined the LaTeX Project Team ...

Two papers on the history of LaTeX

We have added two papers on different aspects of the history of LaTeX to the site ...

Uploading to CTAN with l3build

A new version of l3build has recently been released with the ability to use curl to automatically upload packages to CTAN.

New December 2018 LaTeX release available

We have released the December 2018 LaTeX distribution ...

Experimental benchmarking functions

Prompted by a TeX-sx question on benchmarking, the team have added a new experimental package to expl3 ...

New kids on the block

I'm happy to be able to announce that Ulrike Fischer and Enrico Gregorio have joined the LaTeX Project Team ...

Japanese translations of some important documents

Yukitoshi FUJIMURA kindly translated two documents that are distributed with standard LaTeX to the Japanese language. ...

Talks at the 2018 TUG conference in Rio de Janeiro

This year's conference in Rio de Janeiro was worth attending, both because of various interesting talks, good discussions between participants and, of course, also because of the scenery. Fortunately for those who couldn't make it, nearly all talks have been streamed live in excellent quality and have now been uploaded to YouTube...

Publications now viewable by topic

In the past we collected publications by the project team members on a single web page. Over time that page got really more and more lengthly and unusable so we have restructured this area to provide a view of all publications by year as well as by major topics ...

New April 2018 LaTeX release available

We have released the April 2018 LaTeX distribution in time for the new TeX Live 2018 DVD ...

New (and older) articles uploaded

We have added a number of links to new (and a few older) articles on different topics...

LaTeX sources moved from SVN to GitHub / New Bug tracker workflow

In the past the development version of the LaTeX2e source files has been managed in a Subversion source control system ... We have recently changed this setup and now manage the sources using Git ... So as part of this move we also decided to finally retire the old LaTeX bug database and replace it with ...

Videos from the 2014 UK-TUG conference

Even though 3 years old the topics are still very relevant so we make them available here ...

DocEng '17: Effective Floating Strategies

At DocEng '17 the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Frank presented a paper on 'Effective Floating Strategies' that discusses globally optimizing pagination strategies for documents containing floats ...

New home for the regression test suite

The team have developed l3build starting from the need to support work on LaTeX3/expl3 code. We have been using it for other work, most obviously for testing and releasing the LaTeX2e kernel, for some time ...

Talk from the 2017 TUG/Bachotek conference

At the TUG/Bachotek conference Frank presented further results (and the theoretical background) from his work on globally optimizing the pagination of documents...

New LaTeX release --- Issue 27 of LaTeX2e news released

Issue 27 of LaTeX2e news released. It describes updates and changes made in the new LaTeX maintenance release.

New snapshot (SVN 6984) of LaTeX3 code released to CTAN

Contains updates to xparse, xfp, expl3 and l3build.

Videos from the 2016 TUG conference

Most of the talks of the TUG conferences 2016 in Toronto got recorded and are now online ...

New LaTeX release --- Issue 26 of LaTeX2e news released

Issue 26 of LaTeX2e news released. It describes updates and changes made in the new LaTeX maintenance release.

Videos from the memorial for Sebastian Rahtz (13.2.1955 - 15.3.2016)

Earlier this year our good friend and colleague Sebastian Rahtz passed away --- with him the TeX community lost one of its very influencial members. Videos from the memorial session are now available ...

New procedure for reporting LaTeX bugs

Due to the fact that we get more and more bug reports that we can't help with (as they are for one of the many third-party packages out there) we have written a small package that helps with classifying issues ...

Issue 10 of LaTeX3 news released

It has been a while since we published an issue on LaTeX3 development topics, but that doesn't mean nothing has happened in the meantime ...

Future releases of LaTeX will require an eTeX-enabled engine

Back in 2003 we already announced that going forward LaTeX will start making use of the eTeX extensions in packages and eventually in the kernel itself. While already true a long time for packages with the upcoming kernel release this will also be a requirement for LaTeX kernel ...

LuaTeX 1.0 announced

Big congratulations from us to the LuaTeX Team for achieving this hugely important milestone! It was very much awaited and we are looking forward to ...

Remembering Sebastian Rahtz (13.2.1955 - 15.3.2016)

Earlier this year our good friend and colleague Sebastian Rahtz passed away --- with him the TeX community lost one of its very influencial members...

DocEng '16: A Framework for Globally Optimized Pagination

At DocEng '16 the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Frank presented a paper on 'A Framework for Globally Optimized Pagination' that discusses an algorithm and its theoretical foundation for globally optimized pagination using a dynamic programming approach. The paper was awarded best paper of the conference ...

Globally optimized pagination

At the TUG 2016 conference in Toronto Frank gave a presentation on globally optimized paginiation using LuaTeX as the processing engine...

Issue 25 of LaTeX2e news released

Issue 25 of LaTeX2e news released. Detailing updates for the new LuaTeX, changes to amsmath maintenance policy and other improvements.

Issue 24 of LaTeX2e news released

Issue 24 of LaTeX2e news released. Beginning of Februrary a new LaTeX maintenance relase was published and should by now be available for update.

Issue 23 of LaTeX2e news released

Issue 23 of LaTeX2e news released. Beginning of October a new LaTeX maintenance relase was published and should by now be available for update.

Talks from the 2015 and 2014 TUG conferences

Video presentations together with some slide show material from the TUG conferences 2014 in Boston and 2015 in Darmstadt. Talks on LaTeX.

Papers on "Float Placement" and "Regression Tests"

Two new articles have been uploaded: a paper describing the mysteries of LaTeX's float placement algorithm and a paper about the new regression test.

Issue 21 of LaTeX2e news released

Issue 21 of LaTeX2e news released

LaTeX Begleiter available as ebook

LaTeX Begleiter available as ebook

Issue 09 of LaTeX3 news released

Ninth issue of LaTeX3 news released

ACM Turing Award for Leslie Lamport

ACM Turing Award for Leslie Lamport

Talk from Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing, Tsukuba

Talk from Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing, Tsukuba

Knuth books on Typesetting on sale

Knuth books on Typesetting on sale

LaTeX Companion available as ebook

LaTeX Companion available as ebook

Talks from 2013 TUG conference in Tokyo

Talks from 2013 TUG conference in Tokyo

LaTeX Tutorials on YouTube

LaTeX Tutorials on YouTube

Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston

Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston

Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston

Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston

Babel actively maintained again

Babel actively maintained again

Issue 08 of LaTeX3 news released

8th issue of LaTeX3 news released

Issue 07 of LaTeX3 news released

7th issue of LaTeX3 news released

TUGboat paper on LPPL history

TUGboat paper on LPPL history

Issue 06 of LaTeX3 news released

6th issue of LaTeX3 news released

Issue 05 of LaTeX3 news released

5th issue of LaTeX3 news released

Issue 04 of LaTeX3 news released

4th issue of LaTeX3 news released

Issue 03 of LaTeX3 news released

3th issue of LaTeX3 news released

New LaTeX released in September 2009

New LaTeX released in September 2009

TUG 2009 presentations and a TUGboat publication

TUG 2009 presentations and a TUGboat publication

Issue 02 of LaTeX3 news released

2ne issue of LaTeX3 news released

Issue 01 of LaTeX3 news released

1st issue of LaTeX3 news released

LaTeX2e Public Source Repository announced

LaTeX2e Public Source Repository announced

The LaTeX graphics companion, 2nd edition announced

«The LaTeX graphics companion, 2nd edition» announced

New versions of LaTeX2e and the LPPL

New versions of LaTeX2e and the LPPL

New LaTeX release

New LaTeX release

Current LPPL available in LaTeX mark-up

Current LPPL available in LaTeX mark-up

Translations of «The LaTeX companion» released

Translations of «The LaTeX companion» released

LaTeX3 development code available through the web

LaTeX3 development code available through the web

Section on documentation reorganized

Section on documentation reorganized

Minor changes to LPPL

Minor changes to LPPL

Contributed Documentation

Contributed Documentation

Historic LaTeX

Historic LaTeX

To err is human – TLC2 bug contest

To err is human – TLC2 bug contest

TLC2 appeared, more extracts available

TLC2 appeared, more extracts available

TLC2 table of contents available

TLC2 table of contents available

New LaTeX release

New LaTeX release

Web site revised

Web site revised

LPPL now DFSG free

LPPL now DFSG free