FI:PB029 Electronic Publishing - Course Information
PB029 Electronic Document Preparation
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2013
- 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)
Mgr. Martin Kacvinský (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Petr Matula, Ph.D.
Department of Visual Computing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Visual Computing – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Mon 14:00–15:50 D1
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PB029/02: Wed 12:00–12:50 B311, P. Sojka
PB029/03: Thu 15:00–15:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/04: Thu 10:00–10:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/05: Thu 11:00–11:50 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
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Czech Language with Orientation on Computational Linguistics (programme FF, B-FI)
- Economic Information Systems (programme ESF, B-SI)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-BI)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-EB)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-SO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Public Administration Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Mathematics with Informatics (programme PřF, N-MA)
- Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
- Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
- Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
- Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
- Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
- Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
- Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
- Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to
apply basic principles, algorithms
and technologies of document preparation
and production, namely as an author
of technical documents
(bachelor, diploma or dissertation thesis,
course presentation materials, program documentation, etc.).
Students should be able to use typesetting
system TeX suite of programs.
Students should be able to pick up and work with appropriate tools and software packages used in the electronic documents' development cycle of above specified document types, and for preparation of electronic documents. - 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, macro programming.
- Algorithms 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. Parallel WWW and paper publication.
- Database publishing. Document format conversion.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- 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
- KNUTH, Donald Ervin. Digital typography. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999, xv, 685 s. ISBN 1-57586-010-4. info
- Teaching methods
- Two hours of classical lectures per week. Practical exercises with software in the area of desktop publishing (mostly open source, XML and TeX-related). Attendance at one hour practical seminars is a must.
- 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/
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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