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Letter Assembly 
Code: 201 |
Teaching Scheme
hrs/week |
Examination Scheme |
Theory |
Practical |
Theory
Marks |
Duration |
UT Marks |
Pr. Marks |
TW Marks |
3 |
4 |
80 |
3 hrs. |
20 |
30 |
20 |
Rationale:
Text and graphics are two important parts of printing. Typography
and text formatting methods come under the title of Letter Assembly.
As a part of print production, the evolution of typesetting methods
from metal types to digital fonts should be studied, so that the
basics of typography, type style, spacing and formatting the pages
can be learnt with proper perspective. It is equally important
to study the problems of printing regional language, type setting
in bilingual environment, as a large segment of printing industry
is related to regional language publishing. The aim of this is
to create a proper attitude towards handling computer software
for print production.
| Lesson
No 1: Role of Letter Assembly in Printing
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
| 1.1 |
Brief history of developments from Gutenberg to DTP
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2 |
2 |
| 1.2 |
Copy preparation - various stages
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2 |
1 |
| 1.3 |
Techniques - Hot Metal and Cold types |
2 |
1 |
| Lesson
No 2: Review of systems and its
relevance to present system
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
| 2.1 |
Hand composing
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2 |
1 |
| 2.2 |
Lino & Mono casting
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2 |
1 |
2.3 |
Phototypesetting |
2 |
2 |
2.4 |
DTP |
6 |
4 |
| Lesson
No 3: Type and Accessories
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
3.1 |
Definition of type and typography
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3 |
2 |
3.2 |
Dimensions of type- Parts of metal type (3 dimensional),
2 Dimensional (cold type)
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3 |
2 |
3.3 |
Equipment -- Type cases, proofing machine, Composing
stick
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3 |
2 |
3.4 |
Equipment - PC, Software, Printer
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3 |
2 |
| Lesson
No 4: Type Measurement Systems
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
4.1 |
Point system - Point, em and Pica
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2 |
1 |
4.2 |
Type measurement and calculations- Copy fitting
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2 |
1 |
4.3 |
Type variations (Font, Family of type) and its application
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3 |
2 |
4.4 |
Spacing- Mechanical, optical, letter space, word space,
leading
Positive spacing, Negative spacing.
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2 |
2 |
4.5 |
Formatting - kerning and tracking, kerning pairs, kerning
tables.
Justification, Hyphenation, Rules and borders, Dingbats,
bullets.
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3 |
2 |
| Lesson
No 5 Formatting Page Layout
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
5.1 |
Paragraph style - indention, Tabs, alignment, leading
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1 |
1 |
5.2 |
Character style - font, style, size, spacing
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2 |
1 |
5.3 |
Page layout - Running heads, column guides,
page numbering, margins |
1 |
1 |
5.4 |
Formatting graphics with the text |
1 |
1 |
5.5 |
Proofing, proof reading |
2 |
1 |
5.6 |
Imposition schemes |
3 |
1 |
| Lesson
No. 6: Phototypesetting
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
6.1 |
Different generations - brief history
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4 |
2 |
6.2 |
Phototypesetting - comparison with hot metal
and DTP |
4 |
2 |
| Lesson
No. 7: Font Technology
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
7.1 |
Type Technology, hot metal - Punch and matrices, casting,
type of metals
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2 |
2 |
| 7.2 |
Type Design - Analog, Artwork, templates, punches and
matrices
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| 7.3 |
Type Design- Digital - Stored & modified digitally,
analog output on Printers
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2 |
2 |
| 7.4 |
Hardware & Software - Microsoft, Aldus, Adobe, Format
designing software, Postscript and TIFF
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2 |
2 |
7.5 |
Bitmap and Vector font formats, True font,
Resolution,
Output devices - Postscript, RIP
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2 |
2 |
7.6 |
Font scaling and Rasterisation |
2 |
2 |
| Lesson No 8 Regional
Language Scripts
Theory.
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Marks |
Hours |
| 8.1 |
Type Technology, hot metal - Punch and matrices, casting,
type of metals
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2 |
1 |
| 8.2 |
Problems of Regional scripts - Non linear, Phonetic script,
number of
characters non availability of software's etc.
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| 8.3 |
Software available for Devanagari and its use
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2 |
1 |
| 7.4 |
Bi-lingual type formats
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2 |
1 |
Practical
Collection of Hand set, Lino, Mono, Phototypesetting and DTP outputs
of text matter
Analysis : Printing Process, Type Design, Spacing, Type Alignment
etc.
Lay of the case –
Hand composing -Upper case, Lower case
Key Board layout- DTP - Roman & Devanagari
Diagrams to be drawn on paper.
Composition of name in 3 different types - All caps
Book face and Display Types
Typeset the alphabets in all available point sizes and
study the characteristics
Set the given paragraph in 10/12 type
Make use of bold and Italic
Optical spacing and Italic
Leading the same Paragraph with 2pt, 4pt, leading.
Prepare a style sheet
Type specimen sheet
House - style
Make up of Page
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