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Typography of Technical Documents

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 460-2066/02
Abbreviation STD
Course title Typography of Technical Documents
Credits 1
Coordinating department Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Jiří Dvorský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The following topics will be addressed in the seminars:
Tools for technical documents typesetting.
LaTeX principles.
Plain text typesetting.
Math typesetting.
Tables.
Technical illustrations.
Data visualizations, graphs.
References in documents, citations, cross references.
Fonts, document layout.

Literature

KOPKA, Helmut. a Patrick W. DALY. A guide to LATEX: document preparation for beginners and advanced users. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN 02-013-9825-7.
LAMPORT, Leslie. LATEX: a document preparation system : user's guide and reference manual. 2nd ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1994. ISBN 978-0201529838 .
FELICI, James. The complete manual of typography: a guide to setting perfect type. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, c2003. ISBN 978-0321127303 .

Advised literature

MITTELBACH, Frank., Michel. GOOSSENS, Johannes. BRAAMS a Chris ROWLEY. The LaTeX companion. 2nd ed. /. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2004. ISBN 978-0201362992.
GOOSSENS, Michel. The LaTeX Graphics companion. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2008. ISBN 978-0321508928.
KNUTH, Donald Ervin. The TeXbook. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1986. ISBN 978-0201134483 .


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