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TYPO1 - Typography in Practice

What we teach you

Course participants will get a fundamental understanding of typography, continuous casting, technical and accidental ?? typesetting, will learn the rules for working with paragraphs and fonts and will be able to apply this knowledge in the environment of common text editors, DTP and web pages.

Required skills

Intermediate skills for working with text editors (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer etc.).

Teaching methods

Expert instruction with practical examples, computer practice

Teaching materials

Books according to the offer of the special publisher.

Course syllabus

Fundamental concepts

Font

  • computer font structure
  • font classification
  • font problems

Paragraph composition

  • alignment
  • paragraph division
  • word division
  • spaces between words
  • interleafing
  • letter–spacing
  • accenting

Continuous casting typesetting

  • hyphen
  • dash
  • punctuation glyphs
  • other characters
  • spaces
  • numbers

Technical typesetting

  • mathematical typesetting
  • sequential typesetting
  • tabular typesetting

Typesetting in the Czech language

  • punctuation
  • word division
  • abbreviations

Accidental typesetting

  • optical centre of a page
  • typesetting area
  • numbers
  • capitals
  • ligatures
  • alternative characters
  • decorative initials
  • ornaments and symbols

Typesetting in foreign languages

Typography on the Internet

Recommended prior courses

PCWI - PC and Windows – For Beginners
MSWD2 - Microsoft Word 2003 – In Practice

Recommended subsequent courses

INDE - Adobe InDesign – Basic Course
INTCS - Cascading Style Sheets – Basic Course
INTHTML - Creating Web Pages Using HTML and CSS
PHSH1 - Adobe Photoshop – Basic Course
QXP1 - QuarkXPress – Basic Course
ILUS1 - Adobe Illustrator – Basic Course

Catalog price of course and handbook

Locality Course price ex VAT Price of handbook ex VAT Number IT points
 Praha   2900 Kč  --   0 items
 Brno   2700 Kč  --   0 items

Course dates

Course date Course length Locality Price ex VAT Handbook ex VAT  Speaker language  
 15.09.2010   1   GOPAS Praha   2900 Kč included in course price Course Guaranteed course date
 14.01.2011   1   GOPAS Praha   2900 Kč included in course price Course
 23.11.2010   1   GOPAS Brno   2700 Kč included in course price Course
 31.12.2010   1   GOPAS Bratislava   100 EUR included in course price Course

If none of the offered dates suits you, please contact our customer service department on tel. +420 234 064 900-3 (Prague), +420 542 219 935-6 (Brno).