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The 2019 UK-TUG Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday 16th November at 14:00. The meeting will take place in the Fletcher Room, Trinity College, Oxford, OX1 3BH. We hope that as members as possible will be able to attend the AGM. Notice is hereby given for the following. 1. Election of Chair There were no nominations in 2018 for the position of Chair, which is therefore vacant. Anyone…

Following the recent move of the tex.ac.uk website to a new home, work has now started on making sure we can continue to improve the FAQ (and the website). The first step of this process has been to add the current sources to GitHub within the official UK-TUG GitHub account. We will be assembling a small team of editors who will have direct access to the official master version of…

For many years, one of the core servers for the CTAN network has been located in Cambridge and at least formally been the ‘UK node’: tex.ac.uk. Over recent years, the need for multiple core nodes on the network has diminished. At the same time, Robin Fairbairns, who ran the node at Cambridge, has retired leaving the status of the server itself (inside Cambridge University Computing Lab) somewhat up in the…

The UK-TUG website has been restored after a couple of unrelated issues, both of which occurred at around the same time. There are a few oddities we are still fixing, but in general the site should be functional. Please report any problems to the webmaster.

Following our speaker meeting last weekend, we have now got videos sorted out of all of the talks: Paulo Cereda, Bird seeds: How I learned to write a better tool Simon Dales, TeX2Dox Joseph Wright, Reliable releases Joseph Wright, Case changing in the Unicode world David Carlisle, Fixing LaTeX2e We hope that these are useful!

The 2014 UK-TUG AGM will be held on Saturday 29th November at 14:00. The meeting will take place as part of the UK-TUG Speaker meeting at Trinity College, Oxford, OX1 3BH. We hope that as members as possible will be able to attend the AGM and the Speaker meeting. Notice is hereby given for the following. Election for Chair The two-year term of office of the Chair, Simon Dales, finishes…

The 2013 UK-TUG AGM will be held on Saturday 9th November at 14:00. The meeting will take place as part of the UK-TUG Speaker meeting at Trinity College, Oxford. The committee hope that as members as possible will be able to attend the AGM and the Speaker meeting. Elections for the committee The term of all committee members with the exception of the Chair expires at the end of the…

The UK TeX Users’ Group (UK-TUG) will be arranging a presentation of the very popular course ‘LaTeX for Beginners: Using LaTeX to Write a Thesis’ in the summer. The course will be taking place in London on the 2nd of August 2013, starting at 9:30 am and running to approximately 4:30 pm. Content will include: Editing and compiling LaTeX documents Logical structure Chapters, sections, and other document divisions Including graphics…

Our popular LaTeX course, taking place in January, is once again fully-booked. We will be adding people to a reserve list, in case any spaces become available!

In the UK-TUG inbox today, we were informed of a new project: OERT: Open Educational Resources for Typography. This project aims to make high quality learning resources on typography and type design available to every student in the world. The resources will be completely free and open, like Wikipedia.