Talks from the online TUG Conference 2021 and 2022 on YouTube

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.

Both conferences (as usual) had quite a number of interesting talks on many subjects of TeX usage and related topics. If you have missed the conferences (or if you want listen to one of the talks again) you will find them all on the TeX Users Group Channel on YouTube.

There were also several talks by members of the LaTeX Project team. Some are directly relevant to our multi-year project on automatically producing tagged PDF; others discuss other LaTeX topics of interest. As an intro to the tagged-PDF project (for those who haven’t heard about it yet) I also provide one link to a talk from the 2020 conference announcing that project.

• 2020 Conference
  • Frank Mittelbach: Quo Vadis LaTeX(3) — A look at the upcoming years (2020) which gives an overview about our recently started multi-year project that aims at providing accessible and tagged PDF. There is also an article related to the information given in the talk.
• 2021 Conference

  • Frank Mittelbach: Taming the beast — Advances in paragraph tagging with pdfTeX and XeTeX (2021) - Automatic paragraph tagging with the pdfTeX and XeTeX engine now possible.

  • Ulrike Fischer: On the road to Tagged PDF: About StructElem, Marked Content, PDF/A and Squeezed Bärs (2021) — An overview about tagging possibilities already available. There is also an article related to the talk.

  • Marcel Krüger: Reviving Type 3 fonts for modern LuaLaTeX documents — A discussion of the recently added LuaTeX support for this font format for non-bitmap use cases.

  • Joseph Wright: Any colo(u)r you like (2021) — New color-handling methods for the LaTeX kernel.

  • Paulo Ney de Souza: Interview with Frank Mittelbach (2021) — This interview took place on 7 August 2021, during the TUG 2021 online conference. It is also transcribed as an article.

• 2022 Conference

  • Ulrike Fischer: New in stock — recent LaTeX improvements (that you may have missed), (2022) — An overview about selected new features offered by LaTeX with a number of examples given.

  • Ulrike Fischer: Using spot colors with LaTeX (2022) — Experience gained while working on the 3rd edition of The LaTeX Companion

  • Joseph Wright: Key-value setting handling in the kernel (2022) — A discussion of new features for packages and classes offering key/value options.

  • Joseph Wright: Case changing: LaTeX reaches Unicode-land (2022) — LaTeX now provides much better support for case changing.

  • Joseph Wright: siunitx: Launching version 3 (2022) — A discussion of the move from siunitx version 2 to version 3 and what developer efforts have made this a success.

Enjoy — Frank