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  10                 <title>Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As my regular readers probably remember, I published a French and
  15 Norwegian translation of the classic Free Culture book by the founder
  16 of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig, the last year.  A
  17 bit less known is the fact that due to the way I created the
  18 translations, using docbook and po4a, and also recreated the English
  19 original.  And because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I
  20 published it too.  The revenue from the book is sent to the Creative
  21 Commons Corporation.  So I do not earn any money from the project, I
  22 just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available for a
  23 wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative Commons is
  24 needed.&lt;/p&gt;
  25
  26 &lt;p&gt;Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
  27 Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping.  Much to
  28 my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
  29 French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
  30 available in English since it was first published.  In total, 24 paper
  31 books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:&lt;/p&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;
  34 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Title / language&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Quantity&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  35 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Culture Libre / French&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  36 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Fri kultur / Norwegian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  37 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;Free Culture / English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  38 &lt;/table&gt;
  39
  40 &lt;p&gt;The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
  41 stores like Amazon and Barnes&amp;Noble.  Most revenue, around $10 per
  42 book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
  43 directly by Lulu.com.  The summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold
  44 via the Amazon channel, 10 via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly
  45 by Lulu.  And Lulu.com tells me that the revenue sent so far this year
  46 is USD $101.42.  No idea what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do
  47 not know if that is a good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or
  48 not.  But it make me happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope
  49 they enjoy reading it as much as I did.&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &lt;p&gt;The ebook edition is available for free from
  52 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;p&gt;If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
  55 language, I would be happy to help make it happen.  Please get in
  56 touch.&lt;/p&gt;
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  61                 <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble</title>
  62                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
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  64                 <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
  65                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
  66 2004 book Cultura Libre was published.  Today I noticed that the book
  67 is now available from book stores.  You can now buy it from
  68 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
  69 ($19.99),
  70 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705&quot;&gt;Barnes
  71 &amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ($?) and as always from
  72 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
  73 ($19.99).  The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project.  If
  74 you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
  75 from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
  76 and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
  77 less).&lt;/p&gt;
  78
  79 &lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
  80 sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon.  Not quite sure how
  81 that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
  82 edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
  83 the paperback edition, they are
  84 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;available
  85 from github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  90                 <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
  91                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</link>
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  93                 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  94                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m happy to report that
  95 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;the
  96 French paperback edition&lt;/a&gt; of
  97 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
  98 project to translate&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free
  99 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
 100 Lulu.com.  Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
 101 should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
 102 book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble too.&lt;/p&gt;
 103
 104 &lt;p&gt;This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
 105 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; developer Benoît
 106 Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
 107 available from
 108 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;the Wikilivres
 109 wiki pages&lt;/a&gt; and completed and corrected the translation to match
 110 the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
 111 coordinated the proof reading of the final result.  I believe the end
 112 result look great, but I am biased and do not read French.  In
 113 addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
 114 and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.&lt;/p&gt;
 115
 116 &lt;p&gt;When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
 117 triple the price to allow the book stores some profit.  I also had to
 118 accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
 119 But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
 120 (CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem.  To bypass the problem I
 121 discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
 122 that the revenue for these editions go to the
 123 &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons non-profit
 124 Corporation&lt;/a&gt; who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
 125 So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
 126 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;
 127 and
 128 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Norwegian
 129 Bokmål&lt;/a&gt; editions, according to Lulu.com.  They will get the revenue
 130 for the French edition too.  Their revenue is higher if you buy the
 131 book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
 132 recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.&lt;/p&gt;
 133
 134 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
 135 The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
 136 technical bar to enter is fairly low.  Get in touch if you would like
 137 to make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;
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 142                 <title>&quot;Fri kultur&quot; av @lessig - norsk utgave av &quot;Free Culture&quot; tilgjengelig på papir, PDF og ePub</title>
 143                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Fri_kultur__av__lessig___norsk_utgave_av__Free_Culture__tilgjengelig_p__papir__PDF_og_ePub.html</link>
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 145                 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 146                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;Klikk her for å kjøpe boken&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 147
 148 &lt;p&gt;I 2004, mens &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
 149 Commons-bevegelsen&lt;/a&gt; vokste frem, skrev bevegelsens stifter Lawrence
 150 Lessig boken
 151 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
 152 Culture&lt;/a&gt; for å forklare problemene med økene åndsverksregulering og
 153 for å foreslå noen løsninger.  Jeg leste boken den gangen, og den både
 154 inspirerte meg og endret på hvordan jeg så på opphavsrettslovigving.
 155 Jeg skulle ønske flere folk leste denne boken.  Den gir en god
 156 gjennomgang av hvordan økende åndsverksregulering skader både
 157 nyskapning og kulturlivet, og skisserer hvordan både lovgivere og oss
 158 vanlige borgere kan bidra for å få slutt på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
 159
 160 &lt;p&gt;Derfor bestemte jeg meg sommeren 2012 for å oversette den til norsk
 161 bokmål og gjøre den tilgjengelig for de blant mine venner og familie
 162 som foretrekker å lese bøker på norsk.  Jeg oversatte boken ved hjelp
 163 av docbook og en gettext PO-fil, og endte opp med to utgaver, en på
 164 norsk og en på engelsk.  Den engelske publiserte jeg i forrige uke, og
 165 den norske utgaven på papir
 166 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;er
 167 nå klar for salg&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg fikk heldigvis hjelp med oversetting og
 168 korrekturlesing av den norske utgaven fra en rekke frivillige.  Se
 169 side 245 for en komplett liste.  Slik ser omslaget ut:
 170
 171 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-28-free-culture-norwegian-published-cover.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 172
 173 &lt;p&gt;I tillegg til den norske og engelske utgaven holder vi på med en
 174 fransk utgave.  Den koordineres av dblatex-utvikleren Benoît Guillon,
 175 og oversettelsen var komplett denne uka men må korrekturleses før den
 176 kan gis ut.  Flere frivillige trengs her, så ta kontakt med Benoît
 177 hvis du vil bidra.&lt;/p&gt;
 178
 179 &lt;p&gt;Boken er også tilgjengelig i PDF, ePub og MOBI-format fra
 180 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;min
 181 github-prosjektside&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at ePub og MOBI-utgavene har noen
 182 formatteringsproblemer som jeg tror kommer av feil i docbook-verktøyet
 183 dbtoepub (Debian BTS-rapporter
 184 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
 185 og
 186 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
 187 men jeg har ikke tatt meg tid til å undersøke problemene.  For de som
 188 vil ha elektronisk kopi anbefaler jeg å bruke PDF- og ePub-utgaven i
 189 denne omgang, da de ser ut til å hånderes bra av de fremviserne jeg
 190 har tilgjengelig.&lt;/p&gt;
 191
 192 &lt;p&gt;Etter at oversettelsen til bokmål var ferdig klarte jeg å overtale
 193 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; til å
 194 sponse trykking av boken.  Det er årsaken til at stiftelsens logo er
 195 på baksiden av omslaget.  Jeg er svært takknemlig for dette, og bruker
 196 bidraget til å gi en kopi av den norske utgaven til alle
 197 Stortingsrepresentanter og andre beslutningstakere her i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
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 202                 <title>&quot;Free Culture&quot; by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available</title>
 203                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</link>
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 205                 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 206                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;Click
 207 here to buy the book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 208
 209 &lt;p&gt;In 2004, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
 210 movement&lt;/a&gt; gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
 211 book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
 212 Culture&lt;/a&gt; to explain the problems with increasing copyright
 213 regulation and suggest some solutions.  I read the book back then and
 214 was very moved by it.  Reading the book inspired me and changed the
 215 way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
 216 would read it too.&lt;/p&gt;
 217
 218 &lt;p&gt;Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
 219 Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
 220 that prefer to read books in Norwegian.  I translated the book using
 221 docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
 222 new edition of the English original.  I&#39;ve been in touch with the
 223 author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
 224 published an English version.  So I decided to do so.  Today, I made
 225 this edition
 226 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;available
 227 for sale on Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;, for those interested in a paper book.  This
 228 is the cover:
 229
 230 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 231
 232 &lt;p&gt;The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
 233 few days.  I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
 234 months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
 235 join the translation project.  So far there is only one active
 236 person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
 237 need some proof reading.&lt;/p&gt;
 238
 239 &lt;p&gt;The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
 240 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
 241 github project page&lt;/a&gt;.  Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
 242 formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
 243 dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
 244 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
 245 and
 246 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
 247 but I have not taken the time to investigate.  I recommend the PDF and
 248 ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
 249 have available.&lt;/p&gt;
 250
 251 &lt;p&gt;After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
 252 to secure some sponsoring from
 253 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; to
 254 print the book.  This is the reason their logo is located on the back
 255 cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
 256 give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
 257 Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
 258 </description>
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 262                 <title>French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book</title>
 263                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html</link>
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 265                 <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
 266                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As I wrap up the Norwegian version of
 267 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Free
 268 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof
 269 reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great
 270 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; helper and
 271 developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a
 272 to try to create a French version of the book.  He started with the
 273 French translation available from the
 274 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;Wikilivres wiki
 275 pages&lt;/a&gt;, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing
 276 the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use
 277 to create the Norwegian translation from the English edition.  We meet
 278 on the &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex&quot;&gt;#dblatex IRC
 279 channel&lt;/a&gt; to discuss the work.  If you want to help create a French
 280 edition, check out
 281 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/marsgui/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;his git
 282 repository&lt;/a&gt; and join us on IRC.  If the French edition look good,
 283 we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com.  A French version of
 284 the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.&lt;/p&gt;
 285 </description>
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 289                 <title>Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done</title>
 290                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html</link>
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 292                 <pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 293                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected.
 294 I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of
 295 the
 296 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Free
 297 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in
 298 vector format for high resolution printing.  But my inkscape knowledge
 299 were not nearly good enough to pull that off.
 300
 301 &lt;p&gt;But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
 302 the cover yesterday evening.  I asked on the
 303 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape&quot;&gt;#inkscape IRC channel&lt;/a&gt;
 304 on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered
 305 to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
 306 version.  Not only did he create a
 307 &lt;a href=&quot;https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg &quot;&gt;SVG document with
 308 the original and his vector version side by side&lt;/a&gt;, he even provided
 309 an &lt;a href=&quot;https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv&quot;&gt;instruction
 310 video&lt;/a&gt; explaining how he did it&lt;/a&gt;.  But the instruction video is
 311 not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a
 312 recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as
 313 the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did
 314 use some keyboard shortcuts that can&#39;t be seen on the video, but it
 315 give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the
 316 stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.&lt;/p&gt;
 317
 318 &lt;p&gt;I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit
 319 on the cover I was drawing.  I am happy with the end result, and the
 320 current english version look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 321
 322 &lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png&quot; width=&quot;70%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;/&gt;
 323
 324 &lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will
 325 do.  I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and
 326 hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers.  The
 327 Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code
 328 replaced with the Norwegian version.&lt;/p&gt;
 329
 330 &lt;p&gt;The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect
 331 to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a
 332 final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should
 333 before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in
 334 English or Norwegian Bokmål.  I&#39;m waiting to give the the productive
 335 proof readers a chance to complete their work.&lt;/p&gt;
 336 </description>
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 340                 <title>In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!</title>
 341                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html</link>
 342                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html</guid>
 343                 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 344                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian
 345 translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few
 346 years arrived in the mail.  I had to fake a cover to get the interior
 347 printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is
 348 irrelevant at this point.  I asked for a printed pocket book version
 349 to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how
 350 good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the
 351 pocket book version would look like.  After receiving the 500 page
 352 pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too
 353 small for this book.  I believe the book is too thick, and several
 354 tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that
 355 small page sizes.  I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size
 356 instead.  A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the
 357 URLs look in print.  They are very hard to read in the colophon page.
 358 The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper.  I need to
 359 change the color of links somehow to look better.  But there is a
 360 printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 361
 362 &lt;p&gt;Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the
 363 store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof
 364 readers before the book is ready for proper printing.  Cover artists
 365 willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector
 366 file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as
 367 a graphics designer are mostly missing.&lt;/p&gt;
 368 </description>
 369         </item>
 370
 371         <item>
 372                 <title>First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</title>
 373                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</link>
 374                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</guid>
 375                 <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
 376                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped.  As the translation is
 377 mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
 378 on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
 379 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; based version of the
 380 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence
 381 Lessig.  I&#39;ve been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
 382 give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
 383 its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
 384 helpful in solving my formatting challenges.&lt;/p&gt;
 385
 386 &lt;p&gt;Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
 387 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt; complain after uploading,
 388 and I ordered a text version of the book on paper.  It is lacking a
 389 proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
 390 should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.&lt;/p&gt;
 391
 392 &lt;p&gt;Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
 393 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.createspace.com/&quot;&gt;CreateSpace&lt;/a&gt;, but ended up
 394 using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
 395 to lack pocket book with extended distribution).  I looked for a
 396 similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far.  Please
 397 let me know if I am missing out on something here.&lt;/p&gt;
 398
 399 &lt;p&gt;But I still struggle to decide the book size.  Should I go for
 400 pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest
 401 (5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
 402 15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages?  Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
 403 smaller book is easier to carry around.  The test book I ordered was
 404 pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
 405 but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
 406 bring the prize down further.&lt;/p&gt;
 407
 408 &lt;p&gt;My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art.  My
 409 inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
 410 cover in SVG format.  I also need to figure out what to write about
 411 the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
 412 description on web based book stores).  I would love help with this,
 413 if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
 414 the same CC license as the book.  My artistic skills are not really up
 415 to the task.&lt;/p&gt;
 416
 417 &lt;p&gt;I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
 418 paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format.  The current
 419 status can as usual be found on
 420 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
 421 in the archive/ directory.  So far I have spent all time on making the
 422 PDF version look good.  Someone should probably do the same with the
 423 dbtoepub generated e-book.  Help is definitely needed here, as I
 424 expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
 425 formatting.&lt;/p&gt;
 426
 427 &lt;p&gt;Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
 428 discover translations that should be improved.  The final proof
 429 reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
 430 result in a few months.&lt;/p&gt;
 431 </description>
 432         </item>
 433
 434         <item>
 435                 <title>Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex</title>
 436                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</link>
 437                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</guid>
 438                 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 439                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m still working on the Norwegian version of the
 440 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book by Lawrence
 441 Lessig&lt;/a&gt;, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout.
 442 One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the
 443 original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes
 444 chapter.  Based on the
 445 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/685063&quot;&gt;feedback from the Debian
 446 maintainer and the dblatex developer&lt;/a&gt;, I came up with this recipe I
 447 would like to share with you.  The proposal was to create a new LaTeX
 448 class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always
 449 practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make
 450 file variable.  So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL
 451 parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in
 452 the generated LaTeX File.&lt;/p&gt;
 453
 454 &lt;p&gt;First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes,
 455 and add this text there:&lt;/p&gt;
 456
 457 &lt;pre&gt;
 458 &amp;lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&amp;gt;
 459 &lt;/pre&gt;
 460
 461 &lt;p&gt;Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the
 462 code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the
 463 generated LaTeX document, with content like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 464
 465 &lt;pre&gt;
 466 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 467 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 468   &amp;lt;xsl:param name=&quot;latex.begindocument&quot;&amp;gt;
 469     &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;
 470 \usepackage{endnotes}
 471 \let\footnote=\endnote
 472 \def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
 473 \begin{document}
 474     &amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt;
 475   &amp;lt;/xsl:param&amp;gt;
 476 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 477 &lt;/pre&gt;
 478
 479 &lt;p&gt;Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like
 480 this:&lt;/p&gt;
 481
 482 &lt;pre&gt;
 483 dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
 484 &lt;/pre&gt;
 485
 486 &lt;p&gt;The end result can be seen on github, where
 487 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
 488 book project&lt;/a&gt; is located.&lt;/p&gt;
 489 </description>
 490         </item>
 491
 492         <item>
 493                 <title>Proof reading the Norwegian translation of Free Culture by Lessig</title>
 494                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</link>
 495                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</guid>
 496                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 497                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During eastern I had some time to continue working on the Norwegian
 498 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 499 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
 500 At the moment I am proof reading the finished text, looking for typos,
 501 inconsistent wordings and sentences that do not flow as they should.
 502 I&#39;m more than two thirds done with the text, and welcome others to
 503 check the text up to chapter 13.  The current status is available on the
 504 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
 505 project pages.  You can also check out the
 506 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
 507 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
 508 and HTML version available in the
 509 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive&quot;&gt;archive
 510 directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 511
 512 &lt;p&gt;Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
 513 you find any.&lt;/p&gt;
 514 </description>
 515         </item>
 516
 517         <item>
 518                 <title>98.6 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
 519                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 520                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 521                 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 522                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This summer I finally had time to continue working on the Norwegian
 523 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 524 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
 525 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with todays copyright
 526 law.  Yesterday, I finally completed translated the book text.  There
 527 are still some foot/end notes left to translate, the colophon page
 528 need to be rewritten, and a few words and phrases still need to be
 529 translated, but the Norwegian text is ready for the first proof
 530 reading. :) More spell checking is needed, and several illustrations
 531 need to be cleaned up.  The work stopped up because I had to give
 532 priority to other projects the last year, and the progress graph of
 533 the translation show this very well:&lt;/p&gt;
 534
 535 &lt;p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 536
 537 &lt;p&gt;If you want to read the result, check out the
 538 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
 539 project pages and the
 540 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
 541 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
 542 and HTML version available in the
 543 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive&quot;&gt;archive
 544 directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 545
 546 &lt;p&gt;Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
 547 you find any.&lt;/p&gt;
 548 </description>
 549         </item>
 550
 551         <item>
 552                 <title>From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</title>
 553                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html</link>
 554                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html</guid>
 555                 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 556                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 557 project&lt;/a&gt; provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
 558 administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
 559 and maintaining a Debian Edu installation.  This text is about how the
 560 text processing of this manual is handled in the project.&lt;/p&gt;
 561
 562 &lt;p&gt;One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
 563 language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
 564 But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
 565 information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
 566 in sync.  And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
 567 documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
 568 contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
 569 edit the documentation using a web browser.  We also want it to be
 570 easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
 571 help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
 572 tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
 573 goals.&lt;/p&gt;
 574
 575 &lt;p&gt;We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
 576 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/&quot;&gt;Debian
 577 wiki&lt;/a&gt;, as several wiki pages written in English.  It consist of one
 578 front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
 579 for each chapter, and finally one &quot;collection page&quot; gluing all the
 580 chapters together into one large web page (aka
 581 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne&quot;&gt;the
 582 AllInOne page&lt;/a&gt;).  The AllInOne page is the one used for further
 583 processing and translations.  Thanks to the fact that the
 584 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in/&quot;&gt;MoinMoin&lt;/a&gt; installation on
 585 wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
 586 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;the Docbook format&lt;/a&gt;, we can fetch
 587 the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
 588 page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
 589 manual.  This process also download images and transform image
 590 references to use the locally downloaded images.  The generated
 591 Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
 592 using the &lt;tt&gt;documentation/scripts/get_manual&lt;/tt&gt; program, and the
 593 result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
 594 a handfull of images.  The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
 595 and epub versions of the English manual.  This is the basic step of
 596 our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
 597 epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
 598 are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.&lt;/p&gt;
 599
 600 &lt;p&gt;But English documentation is not enough for us.  We want translated
 601 documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
 602 track the English original.  For this we use the
 603 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html&quot;&gt;poxml&lt;/a&gt; package,
 604 which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
 605 translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
 606 translation tools used by those translating free software.  The pot
 607 file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
 608 files), which the translations update with the native language
 609 translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
 610 original.  The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
 611 and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
 612 create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
 613 debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml).  This translated (or partly
 614 translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
 615 then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
 616 of the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;
 617
 618 &lt;p&gt;The translators use different tools to edit the .po files.  We
 619 recommend using
 620 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/&quot;&gt;lokalize&lt;/a&gt;,
 621 while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
 622 &lt;a href=&quot;http://pootle.translatehouse.org/&quot;&gt;Poodle&lt;/a&gt; or
 623 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.transifex.com/&quot;&gt;Transifex&lt;/a&gt;.  All we care about
 624 is where the .po file end up, in our git repository.  Updated
 625 translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
 626 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc&quot;&gt;bug reports
 627 against the debian-edu-doc package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 628
 629 &lt;p&gt;One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
 630 they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
 631 formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
 632 this regard).  For this we transform the original PNG images to the
 633 needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
 634 translated images by storing translated versions in
 635 images/$LANGUAGECODE/.  I am a bit unsure about the details here.  The
 636 package maintainers know more.&lt;/p&gt;
 637
 638 &lt;p&gt;If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
 639 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&quot;&gt;the content
 640 of the documentation packages on the web&lt;/a&gt;.  See for example the
 641 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf&quot;&gt;Italian
 642 PDF version&lt;/a&gt; or the
 643 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html&quot;&gt;German
 644 HTML version&lt;/a&gt;.  We do not yet build the epub version by default,
 645 but perhaps it will be done in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
 646
 647 &lt;p&gt;To learn more, check out
 648 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html&quot;&gt;the
 649 debian-edu-doc package&lt;/a&gt;,
 650 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/&quot;&gt;the
 651 manual on the wiki&lt;/a&gt; and
 652 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations&quot;&gt;the
 653 translation instructions&lt;/a&gt; in the manual.&lt;/p&gt;
 654 </description>
 655         </item>
 656
 657         <item>
 658                 <title>90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
 659                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 660                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 661                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 662                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
 663 have worked on a Norwegian
 664 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 665 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
 666 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
 667 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
 668 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
 669 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
 670 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
 671 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
 672 progress of the translation:&lt;/p&gt;
 673
 674 &lt;p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 675
 676 &lt;p&gt;When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
 677 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
 678 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
 679 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
 680 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
 681 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
 682 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
 683 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
 684 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
 685 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
 686 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
 687
 688 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
 689 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
 690 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
 691 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
 692 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
 693 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
 694 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
 695 project files currently available from
 696 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 697
 698 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 699 the updated
 700 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
 701 and
 702 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
 703 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 704 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 705 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
 706 </description>
 707         </item>
 708
 709         <item>
 710                 <title>EFN nyutgir novellen Kodémus av Tor Åge Bringsværd</title>
 711                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</link>
 712                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</guid>
 713                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
 714                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden nevnte jeg at vi jobbet med å typesette en
 715 novelle med &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag ble
 716 utgivelsen annonsert med følgende pressemelding fra Elektronisk
 717 Forpost Norge), som jeg gjengir i sin helhet:&lt;/p&gt;
 718
 719 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 720
 721 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EFN nyutgir Kodémus:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 722
 723 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tor Åge Bringsværd-novelle om IT og overvåkning fra
 724 informasjonsteknologiens spedbarndom får nytt liv&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 725
 726 &lt;p&gt;Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN) er veldig glad for anledningen til
 727 å nyutgi Tor Åge Bringsværds novelle Kodémus i digitalt format for nye
 728 (og gamle) generasjoner. Novellen ble skrevet så tidlig som vinteren
 729 1968, og første gang trykt i novellesamlingen Probok på Gyldendal
 730 samme år.&lt;/p&gt;
 731
 732 &lt;p&gt;Informasjonsteknologi spiller en sentral rolle i Kodémus, og det er
 733 spennende å sammenligne beskrivelsen av IT fra 1968 med dagens IT i
 734 2013. Forskjellene er mange -- men det er jammen likhetene også. Ikke
 735 minst det at idag går jo nesten alle rundt med lillebrødre på seg!&lt;/p&gt;
 736
 737 &lt;p&gt;&quot;Riktignok er det ikke påbudt å ha mobil,&quot; sier Thomas Gramstad,
 738 leder i EFN. &quot;Men vi holder på å lage et samfunn der det blir så
 739 upraktisk eller tungvint å ikke ha det, at man i praksis ikke slipper
 740 unna. Og disse lillebrødrene sladrer hele tiden til staten (og til
 741 mange andre) om hvor vi er, hva vi gjør, hva vi bryr oss om, hva vi
 742 liker...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
 743
 744 &lt;p&gt;Det at Kodémus åpenbart er skrevet i en annen tid med en annen type
 745 IT og likevel virker så relevant idag, er i seg selv et hardtslående
 746 tankekors.&lt;/p&gt;
 747
 748 &lt;p&gt;Tross sitt IT-tema fantes ikke Kodémus i elektronisk form, og
 749 frivillige i EFN har skannet inn, OCR-tolket og korrekturlest
 750 novellen, og deretter kodet den i en rekke digitale formater.&lt;/p&gt;
 751
 752 &lt;p&gt;Forfatteren har gitt tillatelse til publisering av Kodémus under ny
 753 lisens, og novellen utgis av EFN med en Creative Commons (CC)
 754 fribrukslisens (nærmere bestemt lisensen CC-BY-NC-ND). For leserne
 755 eller brukerne innebærer dette at de får en klar og standardisert
 756 beskjed om hvilke rettigheter de har til å dele novellen videre med
 757 andre. For forfatteren innebærer dette økt synlighet og
 758 tilgjengelighet for verket, slik at det ikke blir glemt, da
 759 søkemotorer og nettlesere inneholder egne søkevalg for CC-lisenser, og
 760 mange brukere søker etter verk som de vet de kan dele og bruke på
 761 lovlig vis.&lt;/p&gt;
 762
 763 &lt;p&gt;EFN oppfordrer andre forfattere om å gi ut sine gamle tekster med
 764 en fribrukslisens, slik at tekstene ikke blir glemt og for å stimulere
 765 lovlig deling på nettet. EFN kan være behjelpelig med digitalisering
 766 og utlegging på nett, i den grad det finnes kapasitet blant EFNs
 767 medlemmer til dette. Vi mener at nyutgivelser av tekster under frie
 768 lisenser kan øke interessen rundt forfatterskapet, og vil gjerne bidra
 769 til dette.&lt;/p&gt;
 770
 771 &lt;p&gt;EFN utgir og deler med dette en novelle fra den digitale
 772 informasjonsteknologiens tidligste barndom. En novelle som fortsatt er
 773 full av vitalitet og aktualitet, og som derfor kan bidra til, og gi
 774 ettertanke i dagens debatter om IT, personvern, overvåkning og
 775 individets frihet og integritet.&lt;/p&gt;
 776
 777 &lt;p&gt;Du finner novellen her:
 778 &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://efn.no/kodemus/&quot;&gt;http://efn.no/kodemus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 779
 780 &lt;p&gt;i flere forskjellige formater, for ulike plattformer. Per idag
 781 finnes novellen i disse formatene: EPUB, MOBI, XML, HTML, PDF og
 782 txt. Det kan bli flere formater senere, og evt. frivillige
 783 bidragsytere til dette er velkommen.&lt;/p&gt;
 784
 785 &lt;p&gt;Kontaktperson for denne pressemeldingen,&lt;/p&gt;
 786
 787 &lt;p&gt;Thomas Gramstad
 788 &lt;br&gt;thomas@efn.no
 789 &lt;br&gt;4817 6875&lt;/p&gt;
 790
 791 &lt;hr&gt;
 792
 793 &lt;p&gt;EFN arbeider for dine borgerrettigheter i IT-samfunnet, for
 794 nettverks- og delingskultur, personvern og frihet fra overvåkning,
 795 åpne standarder, brukerstyrt programvare, retten til å kopiere, og
 796 styrking av det digitale sivilsamfunnet m.m.
 797 &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://efn.no/&quot;&gt;www.efn.no&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 798
 799 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 800
 801 &lt;p&gt;Jeg håper flere forfattere ser verdien av å gjøre kulturen
 802 tilgjengelig for flere, og slår følge med Hr. Bringsværd i å gi ut
 803 sine verker med bruksvilkår med færre bruksbegrensinger enn
 804 opphavsretten legger opp til.  Selv om jeg gjerne skulle sett at han
 805 hadde brukt en Creative Commons-lisens som tillot avledede verker og
 806 kommersiell bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
 807 </description>
 808         </item>
 809
 810         <item>
 811                 <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
 812                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</link>
 813                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</guid>
 814                 <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 815                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, during a discussion in
 816 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;EFN&lt;/a&gt; about interesting books to read
 817 about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
 818 the 1968 short story Kodémus by
 819 &lt;a href=&quot;http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/&quot;&gt;Tore Åge Bringsværd&lt;/a&gt;
 820 came up.  The text was only available in old paper books, and thus not
 821 easily available for current and future generations.  Some of the
 822 people participating in the discussion contacted the author, and
 823 reported back 2013-03-19 that the author was OK with releasing the
 824 short story using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
 825 Commons&lt;/a&gt; license.  The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
 826 were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;
 827
 828 &lt;p&gt;As I already had some experience formatting text in my project to
 829 provide a Norwegian version of the Free Culture book by Lawrence
 830 Lessig, I chipped in and set up a
 831 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; processing framework to
 832 generate PDF, HTML and EPUB version of the short story.  The tools to
 833 transform DocBook to different formats are already in my Linux
 834 distribution of choice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;, so
 835 all I had to do was to use the
 836 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
 837 &lt;a href=&quot;http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;
 838 and &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt; tools to do the
 839 conversion.  After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
 840 xsltproc/fop (aka
 841 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt;),
 842 to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
 843 nicer &amp;lt;variablelist&amp;gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
 844 technical detail.&lt;/p&gt;
 845
 846 &lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges, of course.  We want to typeset the
 847 short story to look like the original, and that require fairly good
 848 control over the layout.  The original short story have three
 849 parts/scenes separated by a single horizontally centred star (*), and
 850 the paragraphs do not contain only flowing text, but dialogs and text
 851 that started on a new line in the middle of the paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;
 852
 853 &lt;p&gt;I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
 854 single star in it, ie &amp;lt;para&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/para&amp;gt;, but it made sure a
 855 placeholder indicated where the scene shifted.  This did not look too
 856 good without the centring.  The next approach was to create a new
 857 preprocessor directive &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;, mapping to &quot;&amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;&quot;
 858 for HTML and &quot;&amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;fo:leader
 859 leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;&quot;
 860 for FO/PDF output (did not try to implement this in dblatex, as we had
 861 switched at this time).  The HTML XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 862
 863 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 864 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 865 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 866   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
 867     &amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;
 868   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 869 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 870 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 871
 872 &lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 873
 874 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 875 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 876 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 877   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
 878     &amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;
 879       &amp;lt;fo:leader leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;
 880     &amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;
 881   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 882 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 883 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 884
 885 &lt;p&gt;Finally, I came across the &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt; tag, which seem to be
 886 a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;
 887 with &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/bridgehead&amp;gt;.  It isn&#39;t centred, but we
 888 can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn&#39;t
 889 enough.&lt;/p&gt;
 890
 891 &lt;p&gt;I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
 892 linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
 893 directive &amp;lt;?linebreak?&amp;gt;, mapping to &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; in HTML, and
 894 &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt; in FO/PDF.  I suspect there are better ways to do
 895 this, and welcome ideas and patches on github.  The HTML XSL file now
 896 look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 897
 898 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 899 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 900 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 901   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
 902     &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;
 903   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 904 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 905 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 906
 907 &lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 908
 909 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 910 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 911 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;
 912   xmlns:fo=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&quot;&amp;gt;
 913   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
 914     &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt;
 915   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 916 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 917 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 918
 919 &lt;p&gt;One unsolved challenge is our wish to expose different ISBN numbers
 920 per publication format, while keeping all of them in some conditional
 921 structure in the DocBook source.  No idea how to do this, so we ended
 922 up listing all the ISBN numbers next to their format in the colophon
 923 page.&lt;/p&gt;
 924
 925 &lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
 926 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sickel/kodemus&quot;&gt;source repository at
 927 github&lt;/a&gt;
 928 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/EFN/kodemus&quot;&gt;future/new/official
 929 repository&lt;/a&gt;).  We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
 930 days.&lt;/p&gt;
 931 </description>
 932         </item>
 933
 934         <item>
 935                 <title>Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</title>
 936                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 937                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 938                 <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 939                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian &lt;a
 940 href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book &lt;a
 941 href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
 942 The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
 943 in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
 944 those that are reluctant do read an English book.
 945
 946 When I started, I
 947 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;called
 948 for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
 949 and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
 950 mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
 951 strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
 952 my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
 953 complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:&lt;/p&gt;
 954
 955 &lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;
 956
 957 &lt;p&gt;Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
 958 commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
 959 the project files currently available from
 960 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 961
 962 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 963 the updated
 964 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
 965 and
 966 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
 967 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 968 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 969 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
 970 </description>
 971         </item>
 972
 973         <item>
 974                 <title>Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture</title>
 975                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 976                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 977                 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
 978                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian
 979 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 980 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
 981 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law
 982 I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an
 983 English book.  It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever
 984 expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society.  When the
 985 translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy
 986 to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down
 987 to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law.  This
 988 summer I
 989 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;called
 990 for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, and I have been able to secure the
 991 valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.&lt;/p&gt;
 992
 993 &lt;p&gt;Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark.  Then more than 50% of
 994 the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also
 995 titles and index entries are also counted).  All parts from the
 996 beginning up to and including chapter four is translated.  So is
 997 chapters six, seven and the conclusion.  I created a graph to show the
 998 progress:&lt;/p&gt;
 999
1000 &lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;
1001
1002 &lt;p&gt;The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index
1003 entries into the docbook.  They were missing with the docbook version
1004 I initially started with.  There are still quite a few index entries
1005 missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done.  I
1006 currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete
1007 english version of the docbook source.&lt;/p&gt;
1008
1009 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
1010 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
1011 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
1012 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
1013 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
1014 around?  I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to
1015 me.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the
1016 project files currently available from &lt;a
1017 href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1018
1019 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
1020 the updated
1021 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
1022 and
1023 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
1024 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
1025 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
1026 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
1027 </description>
1028         </item>
1029
1030         <item>
1031                 <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
1032                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</link>
1033                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</guid>
1034                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1035                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; one can specify
1036 the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
1037 this information to pick the correct translations for &#39;chapter&#39;, &#39;see
1038 also&#39;, &#39;index&#39; etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
1039 this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
1040 with &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;de&quot;&amp;gt;, and the document will show up with the
1041 correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
1042 case for the language
1043 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html&quot;&gt;I
1044 am working with at the moment&lt;/a&gt;, Norwegian Bokmål.&lt;/p&gt;
1045
1046 &lt;p&gt;For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
1047 because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
1048 all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
1049 dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
1050 of them do not handle it at all.&lt;/p&gt;
1051
1052 &lt;p&gt;A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
1053 this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
1054 variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
1055 two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
1056 is &#39;no&#39;, Norwegian Nynorsk is &#39;nn&#39; and Norwegian Bokmål is &#39;nb&#39;.
1057 Historically the &#39;no&#39; language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
1058 many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
1059 is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
1060 In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure &#39;no&#39; was an
1061 alias for &#39;nb&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
1062
1063 &lt;p&gt;Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
1064 understand &#39;nn&#39;.  There are translations for &#39;no&#39;, but not &#39;nb&#39; (BTS
1065 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/684391&quot;&gt;#684391&lt;/a&gt;), but due to a bug
1066 (BTS &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;#682936&lt;/a&gt;) the &#39;no&#39;
1067 language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
1068 recognise &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The xmlto tool only recognise
1069 &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The end result that there is no language
1070 code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
1071 at the same time. :(&lt;/p&gt;
1072
1073 &lt;p&gt;The correct solution is to use &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;nb&quot;&amp;gt;, but it will
1074 take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
1075 processors. :(&lt;/p&gt;
1076
1077 &lt;p&gt;Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/&lt;/p&gt;
1078 </description>
1079         </item>
1080
1081         <item>
1082                 <title>Best way to create a docbook book?</title>
1083                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best_way_to_create_a_docbook_book_.html</link>
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1085                 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1086                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I tried to send this text to the
1087 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/&quot;&gt;docbook-apps
1088 mailing list at lists.oasis-open.org&lt;/a&gt;, but it only accept messages
1089 from subscribers and rejected my post, and I completely lack the
1090 bandwidth required to subscribe to another mailing list, so instead I
1091 try to post my message here and hope my blog readers can help me
1092 out.&lt;/p&gt;
1093
1094 &lt;p&gt;I am quite new to docbook processing, and am climbing a steep
1095 learning curve at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
1096
1097 &lt;p&gt;To give you some background, I am working on a Norwegian
1098 translation of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, and I use
1099 docbook to handle the process.  The files to build the book are
1100 available from
1101 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
1102 The book got around 400 pages with parts, images, footnotes, tables,
1103 index entries etc, which has proven to be a challenge for the free
1104 software docbook processors.  My build platform is Debian GNU/Linux
1105 Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
1106
1107 &lt;p&gt;I want to build PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book, and have
1108 tried different tool chains to do the conversion from docbook to these
1109 formats.  I am currently focusing on the PDF version, and have a few
1110 problems.&lt;/p&gt;
1111
1112 &lt;ul&gt;
1113
1114 &lt;li&gt;Using dblatex, the &amp;lt;part&amp;gt; handling is not the way I want to,
1115    as &amp;lt;/part&amp;gt; do not really end the &amp;lt;part&amp;gt;. (See
1116    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683166&quot;&gt;BTS report #683166&lt;/a&gt;), the
1117    xetex backend (needed to process UTF-8) give incorrect hyphens in
1118    index references spanning several pages (See
1119    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682901&quot;&gt;BTS report #682901&lt;/a&gt;), and
1120    I am unable to get the norwegian template texts (See
1121    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;BTS report #682936&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
1122
1123 &lt;li&gt;Using straight xmlto fail with some latex error (See
1124    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683163&quot;&gt;BTS report
1125    #683163&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
1126
1127 &lt;li&gt;Using xmlto with the fop backend fail to handle images (do not
1128    show up in the PDF), fail to handle a long footnote (overlap
1129    footnote and text body, see
1130    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683197&quot;&gt;BTS report #683197&lt;/a&gt;), and
1131    fail to create a correct index (some lack page ref, and the page
1132    refs listed are not right).&lt;/li&gt;
1133
1134 &lt;li&gt;Using xmlto with the dblatex backend behave like dblatex.&lt;/li&gt;
1135
1136 &lt;li&gt;Using docbook-xls with xsltproc + fop have the same footnote and
1137    index problems the xmlto + fop processing.&lt;/li&gt;
1138
1139 &lt;/ul&gt;
1140
1141 &lt;p&gt;So I wonder, what would be the best way to create the PDF version
1142 of this book?  Are some of the bugs found above solved in new or
1143 experimental versions of some docbook tool chain?&lt;/p&gt;
1144
1145 &lt;p&gt;What about HTML and EPUB versions?&lt;/p&gt;
1146 </description>
1147         </item>
1148
1149         <item>
1150                 <title>Free Culture in Norwegian - 5 chapters done, 74 percent left to do</title>
1151                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html</link>
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1153                 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1154                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I reported earlier that I am working on
1155 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;a
1156 norwegian version&lt;/a&gt; of the book
1157 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
1158 Progress is good, and yesterday I got a major contribution from Anders
1159 Hagen Jarmund completing chapter six.  The source files as well as a
1160 PDF and EPUB version of this book are available from
1161 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1162
1163 &lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that the draft for the first two chapters
1164 (preface, introduction) is complete, and three other chapters are also
1165 completely translated.  This completes 26 percent of the number of
1166 strings (equivalent to paragraphs) in the book, and there is thus 74
1167 percent left to translate.  A graph of the progress is present at the
1168 bottom of the github project page.  There is still room for more
1169 contributors.  Get in touch or send github pull requests with fixes if
1170 you got time and are willing to help make this book make it to
1171 print. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1172
1173 &lt;p&gt;The book translation framework could also be a good basis for other
1174 translations, if you want the book to be available in your
1175 language.&lt;/p&gt;
1176 </description>
1177         </item>
1178
1179         <item>
1180                 <title>Call for help from docbook expert to tag Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</title>
1181                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Call_for_help_from_docbook_expert_to_tag_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig.html</link>
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1183                 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
1184                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am currently working on a
1185 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;project
1186 to translate&lt;/a&gt; the book
1187 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig
1188 to Norwegian.  And the source we base our translation on is the
1189 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version, to
1190 allow us to use po4a and .po files to handle the translation, and for
1191 this to work well the docbook source document need to be properly
1192 tagged.  The source files of this project is available from
1193 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1194
1195 &lt;p&gt;The problem is that the docbook source have flaws, and we have
1196 no-one involved in the project that is a docbook expert.  Is there a
1197 docbook expert somewhere that is interested in helping us create a
1198 well tagged docbook version of the book, and adjust our build process
1199 for the PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book?  This will provide a
1200 well tagged English version (our source document), and make it a lot
1201 easier for us to create a good Norwegian version.  If you can and want
1202 to help, please get in touch with me or fork the github project and
1203 send pull requests with fixes. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1204 </description>
1205         </item>
1206
1207         <item>
1208                 <title>Dugnad for å sende norsk versjon av Free Culture til stortingets representanter!</title>
1209                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html</link>
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1211                 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1212                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Da opphavsrettsloven ble revidert i forrige runde rundt 2005, var
1213 det skummelt å se hvor lite stortingsrepresentantene forsto hvordan
1214 Internet påvirket folks forhold til kulturuttrykk, og min venn Vidar
1215 og jeg spekulert på at det hadde kanskje vært fornuftig om samtlige
1216 representanter fikk en norsk utgave av boken
1217 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; av Lawrence Lessig
1218 som forklarte litt om problemstillingene.  Vi endte opp med å
1219 prioritere utvikling i
1220 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet i
1221 stedet, så den oversatte boken så aldri dagens lys.  Men i forrige uke
1222 ble jeg inspirert til å ta opp tråden og se om det er mulig å få til
1223 bokprosjektet denne gang, da det er tydelig at kulturdepartementet i
1224 sitt nye forsøk på å gjøre opphavsrettsloven enda mer ubalansert til
1225 fordel for forlag og store mediehus fortsatt trenger en annen vinkling
1226 i debatten.&lt;/p&gt;
1227
1228 &lt;p&gt;Planen min er å oversette boka på dugnad, sette den opp for
1229 trykking med en av de mange
1230 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trykk_på_forespørsel&quot;&gt;trykk på
1231 forespørsel&lt;/a&gt;-tjenestene, skaffe sponsor til å finansiere trykking
1232 til stortingsrepresentantene og alle som har bidratt med
1233 oversettelser.  Kanskje vi også kan få en avtale med et forlag om
1234 publisering når boka er ferdig?  Kommentarene til
1235 &lt;a href=&quot;http://newth.net/eirik/2011/04/01/e-selvpublisering/&quot;&gt;Eirik
1236 Newth&lt;/a&gt; og
1237 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.espen.com/norskblogg/archives/2008/09/erfaringer_med_publishing_on_demand.html&quot;&gt;Espen
1238 Andersen&lt;/a&gt; om erfaringene med selvpublisering og trykk på
1239 forespørsel er interessante og ikke avskrekkende, og jeg mistenker at
1240 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu&lt;/a&gt; er en grei leverandør av
1241 trykketjenester til prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
1242
1243 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har satt opp
1244 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;et
1245 Github-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt; for a lage boken, basert på Docbook-utgaven jeg
1246 fant fra Hans Schou.  Skolelinux har hatt byggesystem for å lage
1247 oversatt HTML og PDF-utgave av Docbook-bøker i en årrekke, så jeg har
1248 kopiert og utvidet dette oppsettet.  Originalteksten er i Docbook, og
1249 oversettelsen gjøres i .po-filer med hjelp av vanlige
1250 oversetterverktøy brukt i fri programvareverden.  Dernest tar
1251 byggesystemet over og lager PDF og EPUB-utgave av den oversatte
1252 teksten.  Resultatet kan ses i Github-prosjektet.  For å komme raskt
1253 igang har jeg brukt maskinoversettelse av alle tekstbitene fra engelsk
1254 til norsk, noe som grovoversatte ca. 1300 av de ca. 1700 tekstbitene
1255 boken består av.  Jeg håper nå at flere kan bidra med å få
1256 oversettelsen på plass, slik at teksten kan være klar i løpet av
1257 høsten.  Når alt er oversatt må teksten gjennomgås for feil og
1258 konsistent språk.  Totalt er det nok mange timer som trengs for å
1259 gjennomføre oversettelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
1260
1261 &lt;p&gt;Økonomien i dette er ikke avskrekkende.  169
1262 stortingsrepresentanter og nesten like mange varamedlemmer bør få
1263 bøker, og estimert produduksjonskostnad for hver bok er rundt 6 EURO i
1264 følge et raskt estimat fra Lulu.  Jeg vet ennå ikke hvor mange sider
1265 det blir i størrelsen 5,5&quot; x 8.5&quot; (det er ca. 140 sider i A4-format),
1266 så jeg gjettet på 400 sider.  Jeg tror originalutgaven har nesten 400
1267 sider.  For 169*2 eksemplarer snakker vi om en trykkekostnad på
1268 ca. 2000 EURO, dvs. ca 15 000 NOK.  Det burde være mulig å finne en
1269 sponsor for å dekke en slik sum.  I tillegg kommer distribusjon og
1270 porto, som antagelig kommer på like mye.&lt;/p&gt;
1271
1272 &lt;p&gt;Kan du bidra med oversettelse og docbook-typesetting?  Ta kontakt
1273 og send patcher i github.  Jeg legger gjerne inn folk i prosjektet
1274 slik at du kan oppdatere direkte.&lt;/p&gt;
1275 </description>
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