TeX in Schools? Just Say Yes: the Use Case of TeX Usage at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

SOJKA, Petr and Vít NOVOTNÝ. TeX in Schools? Just Say Yes: the Use Case of TeX Usage at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. In XXV Międzynarodowa Konferencja Użytkowników Systemu TeX, Materiały konferencyjne. ISBN 978-83-939016-4-7. 2017.

Basic information

• Original name: TeX in Schools? Just Say Yes: the Use Case of TeX Usage at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
• Authors: SOJKA, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Vít NOVOTNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: XXV Międzynarodowa Konferencja Użytkowników Systemu TeX, Materiały konferencyjne, 2017.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Poland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Slides Abstracts
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/17:00097273
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-83-939016-4-7
• Keywords (in Czech): TeX; výuka; typografie; databázové publikování
• Keywords in English: TeX; learning; typography; database publishing
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

TeX is used in schools as Masaryk University, for many purposes: for writing theses, essays and papers by students, for teaching electronic publishing, literate programming, writing scientific papers, quizzes, slides by faculty, or for generating documents and web pages from university databases by university information system and its staff. TeX and related technologies are systematically supported and deployed at the Faculty of Informatics for more than two decades. In the paper we remind the support and projects we have realized in the past, we evaluate the outcomes, and discuss possible future deployment of TeX-related technologies. With the data of fithesis3 support and usage at MU we give arguments why the answer to repeated question from the title is definitely positive, at least for schools like ours.

Links

• MUNI/A/0997/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Aplikovaný výzkum na FI: vyhledávacích systémy, bezpečnost, vizualizace dat a virtuální realita.

Investor: Masaryk University, Applied research at FI: search systems, security, data visualization and virtual reality, Category A