FI:P029 Electronic Document Preparatio

P029 Electronic Document Preparation

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1997

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D.

Prerequisites (in Czech)

I001 Introduction to Computer Science || I002 Design of Algorithms I || I003 Design of Algorithms II
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

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, 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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/edp/