CMP 80K---Art of the Book in the Computer Age
Kevin Karplus
A course in desktop publishing using PageMaker and LaTeX.
Assumes familiarity with Macintosh computers, and willingness to learn
enough Unix to edit text and run LaTeX. Emphasis is on analysis and
design of page-layout, but copy-editing, font choices, and some
history of printing are included.
Office Hours
Kevin has office hours in 315B Applied Sciences Tuesdays 1-2 and
Fridays 3-4, or you can try droppin in almost any afternoon (except
Thursdays) or evening (except Tuesdays and Thursdays). I teach MWF
5-6:10, so those times are out.
Doug's office hours are not set yet, since the Board still hasn't
found a place for him to hold them.
Lab demos
Kevin gives a demo in the Porter lab (D-240) Mondays 1-3, and
Vivek Verma
will repeat the demo Tuesdays 12-2 and Wednesdays 3-5.
All labs are now in the Porter lab, not in Social Science as
originally scheduled.
Students may attend any of the lab sections.
The CR-ROM demo films that are shown in the lab are available for
individual viewing under
/stationxx/desktop publishing/adobe pagemaker
6.0/pagemaker 6.0 training
HTML assignment
This year, for the first time I'm including HTML as an alternative to
learning LaTeX. Both languages are "intentional"---that is, they
specify what the authors intent is, rather than giving detailed
typesetting instructions. LaTeX allows more control of the
typesetting, and is currently the best tool for writing academic
papers. HTML allows one to create hypertext documents on the worldwide
web, which is currently very fashionable.
For more information about HTML, click here.
For a description of the actual assignment,
click here.
It is now possible to have a semi-permanent web page on the CATS computers.
Click here for more information.
If you want to do a bicycle-related web-site, there is a free service
for posting your bicycle pages: the
Velonet Freeweb .
Newsgroup
There is a newsgroup (
ucsc.class.cmp80k) for the class (available only within
UCSC). For posting to the newsgroup, it is generally better to be
working from a UNIX machine, so that proper mailing addresses are
generated.