FI:P029 Electronic Publishing - Course Information
P029 Electronic Document Preparation
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2001
- 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)
- 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 15:00–16:50 D2, Tue 9:00–9:50 B311, Tue 10:00–10:50 B311, Tue 11:00–11:50 B311, Tue 12:00–12:50 B311, Tue 15:00–15:50 B311, Tue 16:00–16:50 B311, Tue 17:00–17:50 B311
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
P029/2: No timetable has been entered into IS.
P029/3: No timetable has been entered into IS.
P029/4: No timetable has been entered into IS.
P029/5: No timetable has been entered into IS.
P029/6: No timetable has been entered into IS. - Prerequisites
- I001 Intro to Programming || I002 Algorithms I
Knowledge of basic algoritmic techniques. One needs to be able to work with computer, configure working unix environment, etc (attending P004 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 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150 - 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 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 (in Czech)
- Závěrečné hodnocení sestává z hodnocení práce v semestru (sazba vzorového dokumentu tištěného a elektronického) a závěrečného testu.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/P029/
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/autumn2001/P029