Re: [Fwd: PV126: typographic programming course info (fwd)]

["Yue Wang" <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

Great. will the courses be recorded and posted on web?

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in two weeks i'll be in brno to give a course; attached is some info; anyone
> is welcome to attend
>
> Hans
>
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> Hans,
>
> this was send to the interested parties
> about the course. Feel free to announce it
> on context lists.
>
> Yours
> Petr
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Petr Sojka <sojka> -----
>
>> From: Petr Sojka <sojka>
>> Subject: PV126: typographic programming course info
>> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:30:12 +0100
>> To: Petr Sojka <sojka@fi.muni.cz>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> below is current version of detailed information about the course
>> by Hans Hagen Typographic programming (code PV126)
>> that will take place at the Faculty of Informatics,
>> Masaryk University, Brno, Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno
>> during the week Dec 8-12, 2008.
>> The course will take place mostly in the Natural Language Processing
>> Lab. If you can, bring your laptop with TeXlive 2008
>> installed, you will be given Wi-Fi access. You could use
>> (limited number) of computers in the lab.
>>
>> _Please, confirm that you will attend the course by replying
>> to this message._
>>
>>
>> Course title: Typographic programming
>>
>> Syllabus:
>> * There will be a series of meetings where the following topics
>>   will be covered.
>> * TeX as language, the road from input to output,
>>   tokens and nodes.
>> * Lua as language, what can it do and what not, why and how do
>>   we use it as embedded language.
>> * LuaTeX as system, how does the two languages work together in
>>   opening up the typesetting engine.
>> * CONTEXT MKIV as application, what kind of code is needed to
>>   permit the use of advanced font technologies, how to get away
>>   with some of TeX's limitations, what kind of technologies are
>>   needed to fulfil today's typesetting demands.
>> * Typographic programming, what is it and how can it be applied
>>   in automated typesetting workflows.
>> * In addition one of the computer rooms will be reserved so that
>>   we can practice the above and work on the products needed for
>>   the exam.
>>
>> Day 1 (Monday, Dec 8)
>>
>> 12:00--13:30 room D2: independent motivating lecture
>>     Typographic programming with LuaTeX
>>     Abstract:
>>      - what is involved in typographic programming
>>      - why and when do we need it
>>      - an introduction in luatex (successor of pdftex)
>>      - commented examples of luatex applications
>>
>> 14:30--17:00 in the NLP lab (room B205):
>>   - running tex
>>   - some basic manuals
>>   - setting up a simple document style
>>
>>
>> Day 2 (Tuesday, Dec 9)
>>
>> 9:00-11:00 [&16-18 if needed] B517 lecture
>>   - introduction to mplib
>>   - introduction to the lua scripting language
>>   - how does it fit together
>>   - examples of documents and coding
>>
>>   in lab (11:30-13:00, 14-17):
>>   - embedding an mp graphic
>>   - using lua to handle data
>>   - individual project consultations
>>
>>
>> Day 3 (Wednesday, Dec 10)
>>
>>  9:00-11:00 B517 lecture
>>   - setting up a style
>>   - questions and answers session
>>
>>  in lab (11:30-13:00, 14:00-17:00):
>>   - working on personal project
>>
>>
>> Day 4 (Thursday, Dec 11)
>>  in lab (9:00-12:30 13:30-17:00):
>>
>>  - working on personal project, consultations
>>
>>
>> Day 5 (Friday, Dec 12)
>>
>> 9:00-12:30 13:30-16:00 either in C517 or in the lab
>>  - students present and discuss results/proposals
>>   - suggestions for improvements/implementation
>>
>>
>> In the course we will use luatex, a successor to pdftex developped at
>> this university. The macropackage we use is ConTeXt. Here are a few
>> url's that can help you prepare for this course:
>>
>>  > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0012.pdf
>>  > http://www.luatex.org binaries and reference manual
>>  > http://contextgarden.net information about CONTEXT
>>  > http://www.lua.org/ information about the Lua language
>>
>> In depth TeX macro language knowledge is not needed since we will use
>> mostly wrapper macros as probided by ConTeXt. However, it makes sense to
>>   play a while with the Lua interpreter beforehand. Documentation can be
>> found at
>>
>> http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/hopl.pdf
>> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html
>>
>> You also need to think about a possible application for instance a small
>> pretty printing subsystem (in that case you can use lua for parsing and
>> preparation and tex for the typesetting).
>
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