Aug21 TUG news: TUG'21 online shortly, CTAN

[TeX Users Group]

Dear TeXers,

The most important event of the year for us is not, of course, a series
of games in Japan. It is the TUG 2021 meeting, August 5--8. There will
be workshops, talks, interviews, tours, presentations and exchanges
about TeX, typesetting, typography, fonts and more. This year, as the
last one, TUG will be completely online and free. The events are
scattered between time zones, so you can always find something close to
you. See you there: https://tug.org/tug2021/.

This year we will for the first time hold a virtual Annual General
Meeting (AGM) on Saturday, August 7, at 18:30 UTC.

The proceedings of the meetings will be published in TUGboat; the
deadline for submission is August 15, a week after the conference.

Nex month, the 15th International ConText meeting will be held in
Bassenge, Belgium (in person), September 20--25, 2021; see
https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2021/

New CTAN packages in June, from A to X:

- aboensis, a late medieval OpenType cursive font;
- basiclatex-ru, an introduction to LaTeX, in Russian;
- beamertheme-simpledarkblue, a template for a simple presentation;
- biblatex-spbasic, a BibLaTeX style emulating Springer's old spbasic.bst;
- cartonaugh, a LuaLaTeX package for drawing karnaugh maps
  with up to 6 variables;
- easing, easing functions for pgfmath;
- iexec, execute shell commands and input their output;
- ifallfalse, compare a string against a set of other strings;
- inputnormalization, wrapper for XeTeX's and LuaTeX's input normalization;
- macrolist, list operations for LaTeX2e;
- newcastle-bst, a BibTeX style to format reference lists in the
  "Harvard at Newcastle" style;
- palette, create palettes for colors and symbols that can be swapped in;
- pfdicons, draw process flow diagrams in chemical engineering;
- pyluatex, execute Python code on the fly in your LaTeX documents;
- strands, draw objects constructed from strands;
- texdimens, conversion of TeX dimensions to decimals;
- texsurgery, a LaTeX companion to the texsurgery Python project;
- thubeamer, a beamer theme for Tsinghua University;
- tikz-swigs, horizontally and vertically split elliptical nodes;
- to-be-determined, highlight text passages that need further work;
- tonevalue, a tool for linguists and phoneticians to visualize tone
  value patterns;
- xistercian, cistercian numerals in LaTeX.

Happy TeXing!