The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 to provide leadership for users of TeX, Donald Knuth's revolutionary typesetting system. It represents the interests of TeX users worldwide: if you use TeX in any of its forms, you should consider joining TUG (see the Aims and Benefits).
About TUG
TUG is democratic and is run by and for its members. Any member can stand for election to the Board of Directors. There is an Executive Committee composed of the TUG officers. A wide range of other committees handle technical and administrative matters. TUG maintains close ties with local TeX user groups around the world.
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For additional information available through the TeX Users Group, please contact us at:
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TUG holds regular meetings in North America and Europe. TUG'98, the 1998 Annual meeting, will be held at the Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun (Poland), from 17th to 21st August 1998. The theme of the meeting will be ``Integrating TeX with the surrounding world''. Enquiries may be addressed to the TUG'98 mailbox. Proposals for papers (which may be on any topic related to computer typesetting or electronic publishing) should be sent to the TUG'98 Programme Committee. Stay tuned for further information!
The 1997 meeting took place in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit TUG'97 Web Pages. If you would like to offer a site for a future meeting, please contact the TUG Office (tug@tug.org).
A TUG Technical Council working group defined a standard network archive for TeX software, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). This is a mirrored network of ftp servers at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de and ctan.tug.org which are widely mirrored and hold up-to-date copies of all the public-domain versions of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont and ancillary programs.
The TeX Directory Structure working group has mostly completed a specification for the standard TeX system hierarchy.
The Math Fonts working group is actively working on a number of new standards for TeX math fonts and tools to support them.
TUG helps to develop, and sells, a CD-ROM called TeX Live, which contains ready-to-run TeX systems for most types of Unix, and a very complete tree of fonts and macros arranged according to the standard TeX directory structure (TDS).
Among projects we strongly encourage are:
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