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 (texhax), reddit, and in other ways.

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

News (blogs)

• The pretest for TeX Live 2026 is underway. If anyone would like to help test the upcoming release, please try it now.
• TUG membership forms for 2026 are available for your joining/renewing pleasure (automatic renewals are underway). Early bird rate ends on March 31, so don't hesitate to join or renew. For anyone new to TUG, we offer a trial membership with full benefits for $35, or without printed journals for  $20.
• 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.
• TUGboat 46:3 has been mailed to current TUG members; it is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 46:2 is now publicly available. Submissions for the next issue are welcome and encouraged; the deadline is March 20, 2026.
• TeX Live 2025 and MacTeX 2025 have been released. They are primarily distributed online through CTAN. More info: TL, MacTeX.

Upcoming events (meeting list)

• DANTE spring meeting, March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH, Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
• 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.
• EuroBachoTeX 2026, in Bachotek, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2026.
• OSSConf 2026, July 1-3, 2026, at the University of Žilina, Slovakia, will have a dedicated TeX+R session. The conference will be multilingual.
• 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.
  Visa/etravel application is advised to be started as soon as possible.
  Bursary application available (for financial assistance): deadline April 3.
  Register for the conference: early bird deadline April 24.
  Call for papers: early submissions greatly appreciated. This will primarily be an in-person conference, but remote presentations are welcome.
  Hotel reservations: deadline June 16; booking early is highly advisable.
• ConTeXt Meeting 2026: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026, Theme: “Focussing”. (Other topics also welcome!)

• 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.
• GUTenberg general assembly, online, November 16, 2025 at 3 p.m.
  • December 4, 2025, Valentin Dao will give a presentation on his intexgral package and expl3 syntax.
  • January 8, 2026, Jean Abou Samra will give a presentation on Lilypond.
• GuIT 2025, Pisa, Italy, November 5, 2025.
• Journeé GUTenberg 2025 annual meeting, École normale supérieure, Paris, November 8, 2025.
• 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”.

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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