European TEX Users Conference and 31st Conference of the Polish TEX Users Group GUST
April 29 – May 3, 2026
Call for Papers → 🇵🇱
TEX vs. AI?
Artificial intelligence has become such a prominent topic that it can no longer be ignored. We find ourselves at a moment when certain aspects of our lives are beginning to change in response to this new technology. It therefore seems inevitable that we reflect on the relationship between this new beast and TEX.
AI chats, with their ability to provide direct answers to specific questions, have grown more appealing than traditional search engines, where one must sift through results in order to solve a problem. A vast amount of knowledge about (La)TEX is available online, and AI has absorbed much of it. How reliable, then, are the TEX-related recommendations it provides? Can AI help diagnose and fix errors in our TEX files? Can it be employed to streamline other parts of the publishing workflow? There is also widespread fascination with the idea of instructing a “chat” to write a program that solves a given problem. Can this approach be used effectively to develop TEX macros? For the time being, AI does not replace the typesetting algorithm itself. Yet perhaps one of the participants will dare to speculate about the future: will it ever do so?
Papers/presentations
Of course we also look forward to the normal mix of TEX, Metafont / Metapost (please, do not forget the fonts!), ConTEXt, LaTEX, and friends related presentations. We also do upkeep the BachoTEX trend in which we try to bring together programmers and designers of typographic systems, typographers and other users of such systems. The normal channel of offering papers is the emailing of proposals to the Program Committee, but before rushing off to the mailer, please consult the info for authors.
Workshops and tutorials
We look forward to proposals for TEX-related tutorials or introductions. If you have suggestions for tutorials or workshops by others than yourself or about specific topics, please let us know.
Poster sessions
As always at BachoTEX participants will be given the opportunity to present their TEX and typographic results in the form of posters for which we provide exhibition space.
Deadlines and addresses
The deadline for “regular” abstracts and other proposals is March 31th 2026. The deadline for final versions to appear in the conference materials is April 14th. Contributions should be sent by email using the address prog-2026@gust.org.pl.