Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Calculatoare si tehnologia informatiei
Programul de studii: Ingineria informatiei - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MMH0002	Typesetting of  Mathematical Documents with LaTeX 	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
5	1+0+1+0	complementary	compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
BLAGA Aurel Paul	Ph.D.	Assoc. Prof.	Algebra, Mathematical Analysis and Geometry	*		*	

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
At the end of the course, the student should be able to typeset complex documents, including: mathematical formulae, drawings, diagrams, tabular material, algorithms but, also, the corresponding reference tools (index, glossary, bibliography).	

IV. Course contents
 1. Basic notions
 2. Typesetting text
 3. Typesetting math I. (elementary approach)
 4. Typesetting math II. (display equations, labels, AMS-LaTeX)
 5. Tabular material in LaTeX (including the specific packages)
 6. Graphics in LaTeX: the graphicx bundle
 7. Commutative diagrams: the amscd and XY-Pic packages
 8. Programming in LaTeX
 9. Indices and bibliographies: the Makeindex and BibTeX programs
10. LaTeX and pdf: the hyperref package
11. Creating overheads with LaTeX: the beamer package	

V. Bibliography
1. Paul A. Blaga, Horia F. Pop - Introducere în LaTeX2e, Editura Tehnică, Bucureşti, 2000
2. George Gratzer - More Math into LaTeX, Springer, 2007
3. Leslie Lamport - LaTeX (ediţia a doua), Addison-Wesley, 1995

	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks
Course
Week 1. Basic notions
 Week 2. Typesetting text
 Week 3. Typesetting math I. (elementary approach)
 Week 4. Typesetting math II. (display equations, labels, AMS-LaTeX)
 Week 5. Tabular material in LaTeX (including the specific packages)
 Week 6. Graphics in LaTeX: the graphicx bundle
 Week 7. Commutative diagrams: the amscd and XY-Pic packages
 Week 8. Programming in LaTeX
 Week 9. Indices and bibliographies: the Makeindex and BibTeX programs
Week 10. LaTeX and pdf: the hyperref package
Week  11. Creating overheads with LaTeX: the beamer package
Week 12. PSTricks, basic elements
Week 13. Tools bundle
Week 14. Getting and installing a TeX distribution
Laboratory
Week 1. Creating elementary LaTeX files, compiling and viewing
Week 2. Editing simple texts, with no mathematics
Week 3. Editing texts with mathematical symbols
Week 4. Editing more complex texts, including display equations, cross referentes, complex formulae, including tose using AMS extensions of LaTeX
Week 5. Creating tabular material in LaTeX, using the tabularx, array and longtable packages
Week 6. Including graphics in LaTeX documents, using the graphicx package
Week 7. Creating documents  including commutative diagrams, using amscd and XY-Pic
Week 8. Defining and redefining of commands in LaTeX, the  ifthen package 
Săptămâna 9. Realizing of complex documents, with index and bibliography
Săptămâna  10. Examples of use of the hyperref package
Săptămâna  11. Making slides with beamer
Săptămâna 12. Simple drawings with PSTricks
Săptămâna 13. Using some packages from the  tools bundle (enumerate, theorem, delarray)
Săptămâna 14. Installing a LaTeX distribution (MikTeX)

VII. Didactic methods used
Description, explanation, individual study, exercise	

VIII. Assessment
There will be several laboratories and homeworks. Each will count 50% of the final grade.	

IX. Additional references
F. Mittelbach a.o. – The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004	

	Dean,							Chair head,
Prof. dr. Leon Tambulea			                        Conf. dr. Simion Breaz

	Date,	1 noiembrie  2010						Course responsible,
								Assoc.Prof. BLAGA Aurel Paul, Ph.D.