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 Great Tikzlings Christmas Extravaganza 2025 has just been released. Guided by William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri you are going to meet a hallucinating meerkat and Wagnerian bats. You will learn things about Canada and find out where all the flowers have gone. You will listen to “Silent Night” on steel drums and see your favourite Tikzlings on holiday in France. There are ducks on ice, termite soup and reminiscences of Alfred Hitchcock, and some of the participants are hopping mad and, and, and … Have a look!
• 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 (TL, MacTeX).

Upcoming events (meeting list)

• 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 Exposés mensuels, online video presentations, in French:
  • January 8, 2026, Jean Abou Samra will give a presentation on Lilypond.
• DANTE spring meeting, March 12-14, 2026, at WiWa GmbH, Lahnau, Germany (pre-meeting get-together on March 11).
• 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 on Thursday, July 16. The registration form and more information will be posted when available.
• ConTeXt Meeting 2026: Maibach, Germany, August 24-29, 2026, Theme: “Focussing”. (Other topics also welcome!)

• 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.
• 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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