FI:P029 Electronic Publishing - Course Information
P029 Electronic Document Preparation
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 1999
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- 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 (in Czech)
- I001 Intro to Programming || I002 Design of Algorithms I || I003 Introcuction to Object-oriented Programming
Je potřeba absolvovat předmět I001 Introduction to Programming. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- 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
- 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 of creation of structured, technical documents like theses.
- Document creation cycle. Basic notions.
- Logical structure of a document; markup languages. SGML, HTML/XML, RDF, Hytime.
- 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. Selected papers on digital typography (objednáno). ISBN 1575860104. info
- casopisy Electronic Publishing, TUGBoat, Zpravodaj CSTUG, Typografia, Font
- DEROSE, Steven J. The SGML FAQ book :understanding the foundation of HTML and XML. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, xxvi, 250. ISBN 0-7923-9943-9. info
- KNUTH, Donald E. The texbook : computers and typesetting. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ix, 483 s. ISBN 0-201-13447-0. 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 (in Czech)
- Závěrečne hodnocení sestává z hodnocení práce v semestru (sazba vzorového dokumentu tisteneho a elektronickeho (html)) a závěrečného testu.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/edp/
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1999, recent)
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