Philological and data-management computer skills

Course timing: Friday 15 Sep. 2023-15 Dec. 2023 9:30-10:30 AM CT (7:30-8:30 PM IST)

Course fees: $2100, or for Indian residents Rs. 10,000

Registration:        Indian Participants                Other Participants

• Typing with ten fingers

• Computer desktop folders and files, file types (txt, doc, rtf, docx, pdf, jpg, png), searching within files and across files. Geany, Notepad++ (Windows), Gedit (Ubuntu), BBedit (Mac), MSWord, OpenOffice

• Units of data: bits, bytes, fields, records, sheets, files, tab-delimited and comma-delimited (csv) files, Excel. Homework: structure a database of some information.

• Introduction to LaTeX: basics, document types, letter. Homework: letter- writing.
  LaTeX article document type. Use of environments and packages: url, item- ize, enumerate, paralist, tabular
  LaTeX packages for special symbols and scripts: babel, tipa, mathptmx, textcomp, inputenc, fontenc, diatop, skt

• Transcoding: TranscodeFile and shell scripts

• Figures, graphs: dot language.

• Bibliography: biblatex and the .bib file

• Advanced formatting: multicol, landscape

• LaTeX book document type, including files tables of contents, indices Article writing practicum Article writing practicum

• Review