TeX and Typography

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Department of Theoretical Computer Science

Synopsis:

This course is presented in Czech.

This course gives basics of programming in TeX (plain TeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX, OpTeX, LuaTeX). Te second part of the course focuses on typographic rules.

Requirements:

No prerequisites.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Sources of information of TeX, priciples of TeX distributions.

2. Concept of LaTeX

3. Macros OPmac or OpTeX, ConTeXt

4. Successors of TeX: pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX.

5 Macro-language of TeX

6. Bacis information about internal algorithms of TeX.

7. Typesetting math in TeX.

8. Colors, pictures, TikZ and analogous software.

9. External software, support of Indexes, bibliographic citations.

10. history of typesetting.

11. Font classification from historical point of view.

12. Principles of fonts, OpenType and others.

13. Micro-typographical rules of typography.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Excersises follow the lectures.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Olšák, P.: TeX pro pragmatiky [dostupné na WWW, kniha vyjde začátkem roku 2015].

Olšák, P.: TeXbook naruby, Konvoj, 2001 [dostupné také na WWW].

Petr Olšák: seriál o TeXu. Dostupné z: http://www.abclinuxu.cz/serialy/tex

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Further information:

https://petr.olsak.net/typotex.html

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bachelor program Informatics, unspecified branch, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Security and Information Technology, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Computer Science, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Computer Engineering, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Information Systems and Management, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Web and Software Engineering, spec. Software Engineering, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Web and Software Engineering, spec. Web Engineering, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Web and Software Engineering, spec. Computer Graphics, in Czech, 2015-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor branch Knowledge Engineering, in Czech, 2018-2020 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Information Security, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Management Informatics, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Computer Graphics, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Computer Engineering, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor program, unspecified specialization, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Web Engineering, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Artificial Intelligence, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Computer Science, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Software Engineering, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Computer Systems and Virtualization, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Bachelor specialization Computer Networks and Internet, in Czech, 2021 (elective course)
• Study plan for Ukrainian refugees (elective course)