Frank Mittelbach, Karl Berry, Hans Hagen, and Herbert Voß were just elected as honorary members of DANTE e.V. for their life-long work and commitment for TeX and its community.

#TeXLatex #TeXConTeXt #DANTE #TUG

@fiee 's German book “Drucksachen gestalten mit ConTeXt und LuaMetaTeX” (Print Design with …) is finally available at https://www.lehmanns.de/shop/technik/88843184-9783965436046-drucksachen-gestalten-mit-context-und-luametatex

RE: https://chaos.social/@TeXhackse/116215631121125378

Inspired by @samcarter ’s talk at DANTE’s spring meeting, Hans implemented cistercian numerals* in ConTeXt. With the next update, you’ll be able to use them as number conversion "c". (Since ~2 years you can already use Kaktovik numerals* as conversion "k".)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals

#TeXConTeXt #math #cistercian

On somewhat short notice, Hans Hagen will present the new MVL column sets layout mechanism on Thursday at DANTE’s spring meeting in Lahnau:
https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2026/

Online attendance via BigBlueButton is possible, but you still need to register. (At least there’s no other information so far.)

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Our regular online meet-up is irregularly tonight, i.e. Wednesday, March 4th, 19:30 CET (UTC+1)

at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke

This is usually a Q&R with the developers and chat about current projects.

ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome!

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The latest update (a few minutes ago) is deemed the #TeXlive 2026 snapshot of #ConTeXt #LMTX.

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Jairo A. del Rio has published updates of the “sudoku” and (Latin/magic) “squares” modules; backward-incompatible, complete re-writes that move rendering to MetaPost.
* https://gitlab.com/jairoadelrio6/context-squares
* https://github.com/JairoAdelRio6/context-sudoku

Also, the “letter” and “basicexam” modules were updated again.

https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/action=listall

Recently, Autumnus published an update to the “basicexam” module (description is in Chinese, sorry).
https://github.com/Soanguy/t-basicexam

Today, Wolfgang published an update to the “letter” module, fixing a few warnings.

https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/action=listall

The articles of context journal 2025 (i.e. proceedings from ConTeXt meeting 2024 plus additional articles) are now online at https://articles.contextgarden.net/journal/2024.html

Consider becoming a member of context group to receive a printed journal earlier and to support ConTeXt development!
https://group.contextgarden.net/

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