PB029 Electronic Document Preparation

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2014
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)
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 8:00–9:50 D2
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PB029/01: Mon 14:00–14:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/02: Mon 15:00–15:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/03: Tue 8:00–8:50 B311, M. Růžička
PB029/04: Tue 9:00–9:50 B311, P. Sojka
PB029/05: Tue 10:00–10:50 C522, P. Sojka
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic algorithmic techniques is a plus. Students will benefit from basic knowledge of Unix environment (e.g. attending PV004 UNIX) 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
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to apply basic principles, algorithms and technologies of (team) document preparation and production, namely as an author of technical documents (bachelor, diploma or dissertation thesis, course presentation materials, program documentation, web presentation or for quality database publication). Students will use typesetting system TeX suite of programs.
Students will be able to pick up and work with appropriate tools and software packages used in the electronic documents' development cycle and preparation of above specified document types.
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 the creation of sizeable, structured, technical documents like theses or dissertation, and presentations.
  • 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
  • RYBIČKA, Jiří. LATEX pro začátečníky. 3. vyd. Brno: Konvoj, 2003, 238 s. ISBN 80-7302-049-1. info
  • BRINGHURST, Robert. The elements of typographic style. Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1992, 254 s. ISBN 0-88179-033-8. info
    not specified
  • 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 mandatory.
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 during the course [40 ]; 100 points is thus maximum to get. For credit one needs to get 50 % of points, for colloquium 55 %, and 60 % for full examamination, respectively. During final written exam no extra materials are allowed to use.
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/lemma/PB029/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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