P126 Designing electronic documents
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2001
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Johannes Hagen, M.Sc. (lecturer), doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. (deputy)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Jan Staudek, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Mon 2. 4. 13:00–19:50 C408, Tue 3. 4. 7:00–8:50 B117, Wed 4. 4. 10:00–12:50 A107
- Prerequisites
- All students attending the course will make a simple document in a screen layout of their own design. Students need to write down (in advance) their motives for attending this course as well as their experiences with electronic documents and sent this to teacher. For attending this couse a basic knowledge of TeX is needed.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- Syllabus
- The course is a mix of presentations, discussion and practicing document design. An introduction to electronic document design.
- The basics of document reuse and PDF.
- Structuring documents and designing layouts.
- An introduction to ConTeXt and pdfTeX.
- Practical tips and tricks.
- Viewers and conversion tools.
- Presentations by students of the results.
- A discussion on possible improvements.
- An introduction to advanced features.
- Literature
- http:/www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/p126/
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- There are three levels of completion: (1) attending lectures and participating actively in discussion; (2) making a simple document and reflecting on its design; (3) making a useable document with proper functionality and design. The students have to send in an analysis, attend the meetings, and produce a proper document, of which a selection will be presented in public.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught only once. - Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/p126/
P126 Designing electronic documents
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2000
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Johannes Hagen, M.Sc. (lecturer), doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. (deputy)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Jan Staudek, CSc.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. - Prerequisites
- Requisites Basic knowledge of TeX. For highest course registration (full exam) short e-mail to the teacher mailto:pragma@wxs.nl?Subject=P126 Hans Hagen is requested: resume explaining motives for taking this course, with current experience with electronic document design.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- Syllabus
- The course will be conducted by Hans Hagen, who works at PRAGMA Advanced Document Engineering, situated in Hasselt NL. His main area of interest is the design and implementation of complex electronic documents as well as streamlining workflows of automatic document production. He is the main author of ConTeXt, a typesetting system based on TeX. His background is educational technology (University of Twente in the Netherlands).
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- The students have to send in an analysis, attend the meetings, and produce a proper document, of which a selection will be presented in public.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught only once.
Note related to how often the course is taught: blokově 20.-24.3.2000 s distančními konzultacemi. - Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/p126/course.pdf
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)