FF:VH_760 Working with electronic docume - Course Information

VH_760 Working with electronic documents

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

• Musicology (programme FF, B-HS)
• Musicology (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
• Musicology (programme FF, M-HS)
• Musicology (programme FF, M-OT)
• Musicology (programme FF, N-HS)
• Musicology (programme FF, N-OT) (2)
• Theory and Practice of Ancient Music (programme FF, B-OT)
• Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-HS)
• Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-OT) (2)

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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