A new issue of TUGboat is published. This is Proceedings issue for #TUG2023

https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents44-2.html

#TeXLaTeX

TUGboat 44:2, 2023 (tb137) - TeX Users Group

Beethoven duck and his new friend the #TeXLaTeX lion are back home after having lots of fun at #TUG2023 at Bonn!

cc @TeXhackse

My personal highlight of this year's #tug2023 conference was the presentation from Didier Verna who presented etap, a GUI to play with TeX's (and other) line breaking algorithm.

https://github.com/didierverna/etap

GitHub - didierverna/etap: Experimental Typesetting Algorithms Platform

Experimental Typesetting Algorithms Platform. Contribute to didierverna/etap development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
#TUG2023 finishes with the personal retrospective of Frank Mittelbach about hist 35+(plus COVID) years in #TeXLaTeX - an apt conclusion.
"A possible way to hear how many users use your tool is to break the tool" Paulo Cereda, #tug2023
The second presentation of Island of TeX at #TUG2023, by Paulo Cereda, an update about Island news in the #TeXLaTeX world. The new release of albatross, community website, new Docker images and many more...
Oliver Kopp at #TUG2023 describes an automated template generator for #TeXLaTeX: a dialog-based program that generates a template (including docker and git files) based on user's responses.
A long standing tradition of TUG conferences is a talk by Joseph Wright about adventures in Unicode lab. Joseph's work in making Unicode TeX-friendly is highly important for the modern #TeXLaTeX. See the current installment at #TUG2023.
A presentation by Island of TeX at #TUG2023 about Docker images of #TeXLive, a very attractive option for (almost) zero administration TeX installation, especially when historical releases are need

The interaction between open source movement and commercial entities using it is always sensitive. Tom Heida talks at #TUG2023 about the mutual benefits of interactions between #TeXLive and @overleaf inviting feedback from the community

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