PB029 Electronic Document Preparation

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/1. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Michal Růžička, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Jiří Sochor, CSc.
Department of Visual Computing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D.
Timetable
Mon 12:00–13:50 D2
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PB029/01: Mon 15:00–15:50 B311, P. Sojka
PB029/02: Mon 16:00–16:50 B311, P. Sojka
PB029/03: Mon 17:00–17:50 B311, P. Sojka
PB029/04: Mon 18:00–18:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/05: Wed 12:00–12:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/06: Wed 13:00–13:50 B311, M. Růžička
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic algoritmic techniques. One needs to be able to work with a computer, configure working Unix environment, etc (attending PV004 UNIX is a plus) and have a clue about formal languages.
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 189 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/189, only registered: 0/189, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/189
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main goal of this course is teaching topics as basic principles, algorithms and technologies of document preparation and production. Topics are taught from perspective of an author of technical documents (bachelor, diploma or disertation thesis, course presentation materials, program documentation, etc.) with emphasis on the usage of system TeX.
In exercises students will practice and test software packages used in the electronic documents' development cycle, and will prepare a document using TeX suite of programs.
Syllabus
  • Basic principles, algorithms and techniques used in electronic publishing are taught. Basic algorithmic skills and thinking is an advantage. Point of view is narrowed with respect to creation of structured, technical documents like theses or dissertation.
  • Document creation cycle. Basic notions.
  • Logical structure of a document; markup languages. SGML, HTML, XML.
  • Design. Principles of book design.
  • Typefaces. Classification of type. Formats, rasterization of fonts. Type 1, Multiple master fonts.
  • Typesetting, typography. Basic principles, rules for Czech.
  • Typesetting systems. TeX -- principles, philosophy, macroprogramming.
  • Algoritms of line and page breaking, hyphenation.
  • Page description languages. Post\-script. Bézier curves.
  • Output devices and their characteristics. Phototypesetting, printing and binding.
  • Hypertext, hypertext systems. Formats for electronic delivery. Portable Document Format, technology Adobe Acrobat.
  • Publication on Internet (WWW). Design of web documents. Paralel WWW and paper publication.
  • Database publishing. Document format conversion.
Literature
  • KNUTH, Donald Ervin. Digital typography. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999, xv, 685 s. ISBN 1-57586-010-4. info
  • BERAN, Vladimír. Typografický manuál :Učebnice počítačové typografie. 1.vyd. Náchod: Manuál, 1994, Přeruš.s. ISBN 80-901824-0-2. info
  • BRINGHURST, Robert. The elements of typographic style. Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1992, 254 s. ISBN 0-88179-033-8. info
Assessment methods
Evaluation is based on student's work during the course e.g. preparation of two documents: 1) typesetting of printed document [25 %] 2) publishing of electronic document (web pages) [25 %]. Final exam consists of corrections of page proof [10 ] and multiple choice test testing the knowledge acquired [40 ]. For credit one needs to get 50 % of points, for colloquium 55 %, and 60/65/70/75/80 % for examination graded E/D/C/B/A, respectively. During final written exam only calculator with standard functions (addition) is allowed.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/PB029/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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