CTAN update: tugboat-plain
Date: September 14, 2026 8:16:04 AM CEST
Karl Berry submitted an update to the
tugboat-plain
package.
Version: 1.33 2026-09-12
License: other-free
Summary description: Plain TeX macros for TUGboat
Announcement text:
An update to the tugboat-plain package, for TUGboat articles using plain TeX, now v1.33 2026-09-12. Notable changes: - formatting of footnotes changed to match the TUGboat LaTeX style (ltugboat.sty), including switching the font to \eightpoint. - footnotes now support automatic numbering, if the first argument to \footnote is empty. - new macro \titleref to typeset a book (etc.) title. - \abovecaptionskipamount, \normallineskip, \Thanh updated to match ltugboat. - incorporate the tugboat.cmn file into tugboat.sty, so there is only one implementation file. (The original purpose of tugboat.cmn was to be shared between the plain and LaTeX tugboat styles, but that never worked out.) Please see https://tug.org/TUGboat for deadlines, author info, an archive of all issues, and everything else relating to TUGboat. Suggestions and bug reports are always welcome; our general email address is tugboat@tug.org. And please submit articles for the next issue!
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/tugboat-plain The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/tugboat/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
An update to the tugboat-plain package, for TUGboat articles using plain TeX, now v1.33 2026-09-12. Notable changes: - formatting of footnotes changed to match the TUGboat LaTeX style (ltugboat.sty), including switching the font to \eightpoint. - footnotes now support automatic numbering, if the first argument to \footnote is empty. - new macro \titleref to typeset a book (etc.) title. - \abovecaptionskipamount, \normallineskip, \Thanh updated to match ltugboat. - incorporate the tugboat.cmn file into tugboat.sty, so there is only one implementation file. (The original purpose of tugboat.cmn was to be shared between the plain and LaTeX tugboat styles, but that never worked out.) Please see https://tug.org/TUGboat for deadlines, author info, an archive of all issues, and everything else relating to TUGboat. Suggestions and bug reports are always welcome; our general email address is tugboat@tug.org. And please submit articles for the next issue!
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/tugboat-plain The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/tugboat/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Tugboat-plain – Plain TeX macros for TUGboat
The macros defined in this directory (in files tugboat.sty and tugboat.cmn) are used in papers written in Plain TeX for publication in TUGboat.
| Package | Tugboat-plain |
| Version | 1.33 2026-09-12 |
| Copyright | 1993,1999,2003,2006,2011–2026 TeX Users Group |
| Maintainer | Barbara Beeton Karl Berry |