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Courses and Sections:

CS846 is Advanced Topics in Software Engineering, a graduate seminar. Section 1 is Advanced Topics in Electronic Publishing

Instructor:

The reason I have no telephone is that I am nearly deaf. I do not sign, but I do read lips. So, I cannot use a voice-only telephone. I can use a video communication medium if the bandwidth of the connection is high enough that the image gets updated at the frequency of television or movies and thus, the lip movement is smooth enough to be decipherable.

I prefer to meet in person. There's never a bandwidth problem that prevents lipreading. For the safety of both of us, I am vaccinated to the hilt.
If necessary, we can meet via Zoom. Please send to me e-mail that you want to meet with some possible times, and I will reply with one of those times or an alternative proposal. When we agree on a time, I will send you a Zoom invitation.

Evaluation of Instructor at the End of the Term

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Course Times and Locations:

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9:00am--11:20am in DC 2568

We will meet on a subset of the dates, so that the total meeting time over the term is 36 hours, as in a normal course.

Readings:

No textbook. Notes are provided at this Web site or are provided at vault.cs.uwaterloo.ca at a URL sent by e-mail to all that are registered in the course.

Workload:

1. Do one of
   • a project, implementing or specifying something related to EP or
   • research about something related to EP.
2. Write a conference-sized paper about the project or research.
3. Give a 30-minute talk based on the paper so that the whole class benefits from it, and the prof has one less lecture to do :-).

Please get your project or report topic approved by the prof before going to far into it, to make sure that it will be acceptable.

The due date for the project or report is Friday 2 August.

Here's some more about picking a project or topic.

Class Meeting Schedule

Student Lecture Schedule

Topics List

The URLs, particularly of published journal articles, conference articles, and books, should be exercised from within the University of Waterloo Library, where you can sign on with your watIam credentials. Then, you should not have to pay for a download.

Also, being on campus or in a VPN that makes you appear to be on campus works, as well.

Topic	Outlines, URLs To Original Sources, and Slides
Journals and Conferences	Journals and Conferences focusing on Electronic Publishing Topics
	Electronic Publishing--Origination, Dissemination and Design
	[JEP] the journal of electronic publishing
	International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub)
	International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB)
	International Conference on Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing (DDEP) (mentions other years)
	Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography
	Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography
	Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation & Typography, 1990
	Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography, 1988
	Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography, 1988
Course Introduction	Main Slides: Course Overview
	Supplemental Slides: One Page Outlne
Traditional Typography	Sort (typesetting) Moveable type sort for one character piece of lead fragile tradeoffs History of Western Typography Letterpress Printing Printing press Justification to deal with mechanical problem Tray of sorts = fount = font Physical limitations and fragility: character parts cannot be too small at small sizes and should not be too big at large sizes; therefore no scaling and each size designed separately. Some Definitions Traditional "font" = Modern "font at one size" Traditional "typeface" = Modern "font" Ligatures "fi" Ligature and Not Kerning Categories of Type Examples of categories of type Type Classifications, by Allan Haley Understanding the Nuances of Typeface Classification, by Cameron Chapman Typeface Review definitions of "font", "typeface" General typography from book on digital typography Digital Typography: An Introduction to Type and Composition for Computer System Design, by Richard Rubinstein, 1988 Parts of a character Monospaced vs proportional spaced Serif vs sanserif Roman vs Upright, Italic vs Oblique Weights (light, regular, bold, extra bold) Cursive vs separate Stroke variations x-height variations Scaling to different sizes vs separate designs for each size Dealing with accents Kerning pairs and ligatures as units Reading difficulties as a function of typeface features Optical illusions and overhang Paper Size A4 and Letter paper sizes have about the same area ACM's and IEEE's A4xLetter: ACM and IEEE journals use a paper size that is the intersection of A4 and Letter sizes; so ACM and IEEE journal articles are narrow enough for A4 paper and short enough for Letter paper Gaugezilla Google "Images for typesetting ruler" and then click on "Images for typesetting ruler"
Phototypography	Phototypesetting: A Design Manual, by James Craig, 1978 Sort Vs Phototypesetter Vs LaserPrinter Sort Hot type Phototypsetter Laser printer Metal type & ink Metal type & ink Light through template on photographic paper Bitmap on ordinary paper Manual Mechanical machine Computer controlled mechanical machine Computer all the way Hands move type Keybord move type casts troff controls phototypesetter TeX generates bitmaps Analog type Analog type Analog type Digital type Phototypesetting avoids physical limitations of physical type: negative spacing in both directions table-driven kerning: kerning no longer requires special metallic unit with the kerned pair; negative character spacing does the job ligatures still require built in template; cannot be faked with negative character spacing both scaling and multiple design sizes to achieve different sizes of type But is still analog, because it's printed in a photographic process.
Digital Typography	First paper ever on digital typography First digital typography is for display on CRTs, using beams to make strokes From Bitmaps to PostScript and Other Languages Ultimately, printers print bitmaps of pages Can produce bitmaps of pages by properly placed bitmaps of characters Can produce bitmaps of characters from definitions of characters by compilation (e.g., Metafont) or interpretation (e.g., PostScript) Lots of styles of definitions of characters: bitmap, stroke, stroke + pen, outline, imperative, equational Problems with bitmaps: rounding, aligning, scaling up, scaling down Problems with converting outlines or strokes+pens to bitmaps Outline and stroke fonts scalable up and down Bitmapped Vs Outline Fonts Designed Vs Scaled Sizes Typeface Design Books Graphic Design With Computer Other Materials Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth, 1999 "Mathematical typography", Donald E. Knuth, Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 337-372 Berry's early attempts at an author's being responsible for his own typesetting for a journal publication Yemini, S., Berry, D.M. “A Modular Verifiable Exception Handling Mechanism,” Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 7:2, pp. 214–243, April 1985, (They typeset) Buchman, C., Berry, D.M., Gonczarowski, J. “DITROFF/FFORTID: An Adaptation of the UNIX^TM DITROFF for Formatting Bi-Directional Text,” Transactions on Office Informations Systems, 3:4, pp. 380–397, October, 1985, (We typeset only last pages) Yemini, S., Berry, D.M. “An Axiomatic Treatment of Exception Handling in an Expression-Oriented Language,” Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 9:3, pp. 390–407, July, 1987, (We typeset it all) Arbab, B., Berry, D.M. “Operational and Denotational Semantics of Prolog,” Journal of Logic Programming, 4:4, pp. 309–330, December, 1987, (We typeset it all) Berry, D.M. “The Importance of Ignorance in Requirements Engineering,” Journal of Systems and Software, 28:2, pp. 179–184, 1995, (I typeset it all, and it led to very fast publication)
Formatting	Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics "Formatting" Article (Including Supplements) Basic definitions for formatting Formatting Software's Reference Manual Relation between formatter's features, user's manual, and implementation can be used to test and debug all three with respect to each other, even to make sure that the features meet requirements My ELL article describes itself Troff family reference manuals The TeXbook, by Donald E. Knuth, 1984 The TeXbook, by Donald E. Knuth, 1984 texbook --- The source of The TeXbook Changing from 2 to 1 column Wrong width tables 1 vs 2 columns Scaling With Included Outline and Bitmap Images LaTeX troff Word Acrobat X PS outline images PDF outline images PNG opaque bitmapped images PNG transparent bitmapped images Formatting Atrocities Ligatures Small caps ashow in PostScript Slides: Brian Kernighan Introduction Troff and its Family Troff: troff.org Slides: Troff Family Piped Architecture TeX and its Family The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network The TeX Frequently Asked Question List How (La)TeX changed the face of Mathematics, An E-interview with Leslie Lamport, the author of LaTeX
Multilingual Wordprocessing	Multi-Lingual Overview Brief BiDi Reading Lesson Arabic Alphabet Table Connecting Arabic Star Trek, the Next Generation Ligatures vs Connections in Arabic Hong Kong Style Understanding Birectional Text in Unicode (original source) Understanding Birectional Text in Unicode (marked local copy) Unicode BiDi Algorithm Unicode BiDi Examples LRO-RLO and Mouse Notes Other Materials chapter on "Multilingual Typesetting" in Digital Typography Using Latex by Apostolos Syropoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis, Nick Sofroniou, 2003 Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec

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