VH_760 Working with electronic documents

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Vít Baisa, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Tue 9:10–10:45 N43
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The goal of the subject is to introduce students to problematics of electronic document preparation and to two tools for electronical typesetting of texts and musical scores. The first is typographic system TeX (and macros LaTeX) and the second is Lilypond.
Syllabus
  • 1. Typography basics.
  • 2. Typographic guides.
  • 3. LaTeX, TeX.
  • a. Motivation, origin, development, main principles.
  • b. Instalation, launching.
  • c. Elementary working with LaTeX.
  • d. Straight setting.
  • e. Mixed setting.
  • f. Paragraph setting.
  • g. Structuring documents.
  • h. Tables.
  • i. Graphics.
  • j. Automaticaly generated parts of documents (contents, citations, index, etc.).
  • 4. Lilypond.
  • a. Motivation, origin, development, main principles.
  • b. Syntax, context, voice, engraver.
  • c. One voice setting.
  • d. Polyphony setting.
  • e. Special setting.
  • f. Particual problems and their solutions.
  • 5. Combining LaTeX and Lilypond.
  • a. LilypondBook
  • b. Complex musicologic document setting.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Typografický manuál (Variant.) : Aktualizovaný typografický manuál. info
  • RYBIČKA, Jiří. LATEX pro začátečníky. 3. vyd. Brno: Konvoj, 2003, 238 s. ISBN 80-7302-049-1. info
  • OLŠÁK, Petr. Typografický systém TEX. 2. vyd., V Konvoji 1. Brno: Konvoj, 2000, 300 s. ISBN 8085615916. info
  • KNUTH, Donald Ervin. Digital typography. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999, xv, 685. ISBN 1575860112. info
  • KNUTH, Donald E. The texbook : computers and typesetting. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996, ix, 483 s. ISBN 0-201-13447-0. info
  • LAMPORT, Leslie. LATEX :a document preparation system : user's guide and reference manual. 2nd ed. Boston, Mass.: Addison Wesley, 1994, xvi, 272 s. ISBN 0-201-52983-1. info
  • KNUTH, Donald Ervin. TEX :the program. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986, 594 s. ISBN 0-201-13437-3. info
  • KNUTH, Donald Ervin. The METAFONTbook. Illustrated by Duane Robert Bibby. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1986, xi, 361 l. ISBN 0-201-13444-6. info
Teaching methods
Practice and theory: talks with tutorials.
Assessment methods
Will be specified at the beginning of term.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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