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8 September 2024
TUG Conference 2024 in Prague: talks and accessibility workshop
The TUG conference 2024 in Prague was a hybrid conference, i.e., all talks were recorded and also streamed. The recordings have been cut and cleaned up by a Norbert Preining and are now available on YouTube. [...] The LaTeX Project team also organized a workshop on automatically producing accessible PDFs with LaTeX...
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8 July 2024
How to make accessible PDF
The LaTeX Tagged PDF project is now advanced enough that more and more people start using it. We have therefore begun with building usage documentation ...
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13 June 2024
LaTeX 2024-06-01 PL1 released and distributed
We sent the 2024-06-01 release (patch level 1) of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN. By now it should be available to most users via TeX Live or MiKTeX....
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24 April 2024
Development releases for the L3 Programming Layer
We encourage interested users and especially developers to try out the development formats, which will now include testing a pre-release of the L3 Programming Layer (expl3)...
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27 March 2024
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 ...
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26 March 2024
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 ...
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25 November 2023
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...
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4 November 2023
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...
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10 June 2023
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) ...
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27 May 2023
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.
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17 March 2023
"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...
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13 March 2023
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.
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3 January 2023
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 ...
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3 November 2022
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 ...
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20 September 2022
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...
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6 September 2022
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 ...
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14 June 2022
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...
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27 May 2022
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...
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21 March 2022
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...
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16 March 2022
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 ...
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8 March 2022
LaTeX Graphics Companion 2ed is back in print! (update)
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14 February 2022
LaTeX Graphics Companion 2ed is back in print!
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21 December 2021
log4j vulnerability: LaTeX is not affected!
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15 November 2021
Fall 2021 LaTeX release available
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25 October 2021
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 ...
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23 September 2021
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 ...
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1 June 2021
Spring 2021 LaTeX release available
This year Spring in LaTeX's counting is somewhat delayed, but this fits the weather ...
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5 May 2021
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 ...
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5 March 2021
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 ...
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7 February 2021
A new team member?
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30 November 2020
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. ...
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9 November 2020
Tutorial on the L3 programming layer (expl3)
In Spring 2020 the LaTeX3 programming language `expl3` was integrated into the LaTeX format ...
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1 October 2020
Fall 2020 LaTeX release available
This release introduces a number of important enhancements ...
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15 September 2020
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 ...
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1 September 2020
Final pre-release of LaTeX 2020-10-01 is available for testing
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22 July 2020
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 ...
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21 July 2020
New articles by project members
We have added five articles recently published in TUGboat to the site ...
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17 July 2020
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 ...
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28 May 2020
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 ...
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2 February 2020
Spring 2020 LaTeX release available
This release introduces a number of important enhancements ...
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31 January 2020
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 ...
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17 January 2020
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 ...
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28 November 2019
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 ...
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15 October 2019
New October 2019 LaTeX release available
We have released the October 2019 LaTeX distribution ...
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1 September 2019
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 ...
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25 August 2019
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 ...
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23 April 2019
Two papers on the history of LaTeX
We have added two papers on different aspects of the history of LaTeX to the site ...
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16 April 2019
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.
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10 December 2018
New December 2018 LaTeX release available
We have released the December 2018 LaTeX distribution ...
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28 October 2018
Experimental benchmarking functions
Prompted by a TeX-sx question on benchmarking, the team have added a new experimental package to expl3 ...
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16 October 2018
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 ...
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1 September 2018
Japanese translations of some important documents
Yukitoshi FUJIMURA kindly translated two documents that are distributed with standard LaTeX to the Japanese language. ...
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6 August 2018
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...
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28 June 2018
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 ...
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10 April 2018
New April 2018 LaTeX release available
We have released the April 2018 LaTeX distribution in time for the new TeX Live 2018 DVD ...
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30 January 2018
New (and older) articles uploaded
We have added a number of links to new (and a few older) articles on different topics...
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15 December 2017
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 ...
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24 October 2017
Videos from the 2014 UK-TUG conference
Even though 3 years old the topics are still very relevant so we make them available here ...
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18 September 2017
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 ...
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25 June 2017
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 ...
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10 June 2017
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...
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16 April 2017
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.
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9 March 2017
New snapshot (SVN 6984) of LaTeX3 code released to CTAN
Contains updates to xparse, xfp, expl3 and l3build.
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8 March 2017
Videos from the 2016 TUG conference
Most of the talks of the TUG conferences 2016 in Toronto got recorded and are now online ...
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26 January 2017
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.
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7 December 2016
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 ...
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27 November 2016
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 ...
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21 November 2016
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 ...
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4 November 2016
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 ...
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29 September 2016
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 ...
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25 September 2016
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...
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21 September 2016
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 ...
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17 August 2016
Globally optimized pagination
At the TUG 2016 conference in Toronto Frank gave a presentation on globally optimized paginiation using LuaTeX as the processing engine...
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25 March 2016
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.
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11 February 2016
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.
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13 October 2015
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.
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12 August 2015
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.
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23 February 2015
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.
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16 October 2014
Issue 21 of LaTeX2e news released
Issue 21 of LaTeX2e news released
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10 June 2014
LaTeX Begleiter available as ebook
LaTeX Begleiter available as ebook
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24 March 2014
Issue 09 of LaTeX3 news released
Ninth issue of LaTeX3 news released
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18 March 2014
ACM Turing Award for Leslie Lamport
ACM Turing Award for Leslie Lamport
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5 February 2014
Talk from Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing, Tsukuba
Talk from Symposium on Multilingual Information Processing, Tsukuba
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6 December 2013
Knuth books on Typesetting on sale
Knuth books on Typesetting on sale
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2 November 2013
LaTeX Companion available as ebook
LaTeX Companion available as ebook
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27 October 2013
Talks from 2013 TUG conference in Tokyo
Talks from 2013 TUG conference in Tokyo
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30 September 2013
LaTeX Tutorials on YouTube
LaTeX Tutorials on YouTube
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19 March 2013
Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston
Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston
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16 August 2012
Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston
Talks from 2012 TUG conference in Boston
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5 August 2012
Babel actively maintained again
Babel actively maintained again
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29 July 2012
Issue 08 of LaTeX3 news released
8th issue of LaTeX3 news released
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26 February 2012
Issue 07 of LaTeX3 news released
7th issue of LaTeX3 news released
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14 October 2011
TUGboat paper on LPPL history
TUGboat paper on LPPL history
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9 August 2011
Issue 06 of LaTeX3 news released
6th issue of LaTeX3 news released
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28 January 2011
Issue 05 of LaTeX3 news released
5th issue of LaTeX3 news released
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25 August 2010
Issue 04 of LaTeX3 news released
4th issue of LaTeX3 news released
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10 January 2010
Issue 03 of LaTeX3 news released
3th issue of LaTeX3 news released
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15 October 2009
New LaTeX released in September 2009
New LaTeX released in September 2009
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10 August 2009
TUG 2009 presentations and a TUGboat publication
TUG 2009 presentations and a TUGboat publication
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10 June 2009
Issue 02 of LaTeX3 news released
2ne issue of LaTeX3 news released
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10 February 2009
Issue 01 of LaTeX3 news released
1st issue of LaTeX3 news released
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25 January 2009
LaTeX2e Public Source Repository announced
LaTeX2e Public Source Repository announced
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14 July 2007
The LaTeX graphics companion, 2nd edition announced
«The LaTeX graphics companion, 2nd edition» announced
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22 May 2006
New versions of LaTeX2e and the LPPL
New versions of LaTeX2e and the LPPL
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27 April 2006
New LaTeX release
New LaTeX release
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13 January 2006
Current LPPL available in LaTeX mark-up
Current LPPL available in LaTeX mark-up
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19 November 2005
Translations of «The LaTeX companion» released
Translations of «The LaTeX companion» released
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22 February 2005
LaTeX3 development code available through the web
LaTeX3 development code available through the web
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20 October 2004
Section on documentation reorganized
Section on documentation reorganized
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11 October 2004
Minor changes to LPPL
Minor changes to LPPL
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8 October 2004
Contributed Documentation
Contributed Documentation
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15 June 2004
Historic LaTeX
Historic LaTeX
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14 May 2004
To err is human – TLC2 bug contest
To err is human – TLC2 bug contest
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5 May 2004
TLC2 appeared, more extracts available
TLC2 appeared, more extracts available
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22 March 2004
TLC2 table of contents available
TLC2 table of contents available
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13 March 2004
New LaTeX release
New LaTeX release
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8 March 2004
Web site revised
Web site revised
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8 March 2004
LPPL now DFSG free
LPPL now DFSG free