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2024-09-07:

tugindia was first established in 1998. It faced an enthusiastic rise and an unfortunate fall in a couple of years. After 22 years, a bunch of Indian TEX hackers have come together again to revive this initiative. We are spread across several states of India. Currently we have active participation from Trivandrum, Kannur (Kerala); Mumbai, Pune (Maharashtra) and Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh).

2024-10-01:

The annual conference of the TEX Users Group for the year 2025, also known as TUG 2025, is scheduled to be conducted in Trivandum during July 18–20, 2025. This is the third time that a TUG conference is being held at Trivandrum. Hope, TEX users from India would find this conference convenient for them to participate. The conference web site will soon be made available at https://tug.org/tug2025.

2024-10-01:

Going live on Mastodon! (https://techhub.social/@TUGIndia )

2024-10-01:

tugindia has released its first LATEX package, namely, udis, which is a generic document class to format dissertations for submission to universties. The specialty of this class, among other features, is its support for Indic scripts and many customisable options. The package shall be downloaded from https://ctan.org/pkg/udiss.

2024-10-30:

TEXFolio is a community supported, browser oriented, TEX based document foramtting system. It needs a modern browser and a recent TEX Live installation to work. The TEXFolio can be installed on your local desktop or laptop or shall be installed on a server so that several of your colleagues can share the framework for their individual document formatting purposes with necessary user credentials. TEXFolio is a free software as in free speech and free beer.