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                <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, during a discussion in
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;EFN&lt;/a&gt; about interesting books to read
about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
the 1968 short story Kodémus by
&lt;a href=&quot;http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/&quot;&gt;Tore Åge Bringsværd&lt;/a&gt;
came up.  The text was only available in old paper books, and thus not
easily available for current and future generations.  Some of the
people participating in the discussion contacted the author, and
reported back 2013-03-19 that the author was OK with releasing the
short story using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
Commons&lt;/a&gt; license.  The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As I already had some experience formatting text in my project to
provide a Norwegian version of the Free Culture book by Lawrence
Lessig, I chipped in and set up a
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; processing framework to
generate PDF, HTML and EPUB version of the short story.  The tools to
transform DocBook to different formats are already in my Linux
distribution of choice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;, so
all I had to do was to use the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;
and &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt; tools to do the
conversion.  After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
xsltproc/fop (aka
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt;),
to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
nicer &amp;lt;variablelist&amp;gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
technical detail.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges, of course.  We want to typeset the
short story to look like the original, and that require fairly good
control over the layout.  The original short story have three
parts/scenes separated by a single horizontally centred star (*), and
the paragraphs do not contain only flowing text, but dialogs and text
that started on a new line in the middle of the paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
single star in it, ie &amp;lt;para&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/para&amp;gt;, but it made sure a
placeholder indicated where the scene shifted.  This did not look too
good without the centring.  The next approach was to create a new
preprocessor directive &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;, mapping to &quot;&amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;&quot;
for HTML and &quot;&amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;fo:leader
leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;&quot;
for FO/PDF output (did not try to implement this in dblatex, as we had
switched at this time).  The HTML XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;
      &amp;lt;fo:leader leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Finally, I came across the &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt; tag, which seem to be
a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;
with &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/bridgehead&amp;gt;.  It isn&#39;t centred, but we
can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn&#39;t
enough.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
directive &amp;lt;?linebreak?&amp;gt;, mapping to &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; in HTML, and
&amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt; in FO/PDF.  I suspect there are better ways to do
this, and welcome ideas and patches on github.  The HTML XSL file now
look like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;
  xmlns:fo=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&quot;&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One unsolved challenge is our wish to expose different ISBN numbers
per publication format, while keeping all of them in some conditional
structure in the DocBook source.  No idea how to do this, so we ended
up listing all the ISBN numbers next to their format in the colophon
page.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sickel/kodemus&quot;&gt;source repository at
github&lt;/a&gt;
(&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/EFN/kodemus&quot;&gt;future/new/official
repository&lt;/a&gt;).  We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
days.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble overrasket over å se at Piratpartiet i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Piratpartiet-stiller-til-Stortingsvalget-7073298.html&quot;&gt;Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt;
er referert på følgende:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Når det gjelder retten til opphavsrett for kulturproduktene, mener
Piratpartiet av levetid + 14 år er tilfredsstillende.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det betyr en vernetid langt ut over det kommersielle livet til de
aller fleste opphavsrettsbeskyttede verker, og er i strid med slik i
hvert fall jeg har tolket punkt 5 i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html&quot;&gt;kjerneprogrammet
til Piratpartiet&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5: Åndsverk og patenter: tilbake til start&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;forslag:&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;14 års opphavsrett og ingen
programvarepatenter&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;grunn:&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;Den første loven om opphavsrett spesifiserte 14
års vernetid. Senere har mediabransjens lobbyister stadig presset
loven mot lengre vern, nå er det 70 år etter forfatters død. Dette
gjør at mange verk glemmes og går tapt, noe som er skadelig for norsk
språk og kultur. Vi til tilbake til start: 14 års
vernetid. Patentloven sier klart at dataprogrammer ikke kan
patenteres. Likevel klarer patentadvokater å lure gjennom
programvarepatenter. Slike patenter gjør dingsene våre dyrere og kan i
enkelte tilfelle stoppe dem helt.&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Den opprinnelige opphavsretten var på 14 år totalt, ikke 14 år
etter opphavspersonens død.  Jeg tenkte først dette kanskje var
feilsitering fra Aftenposten, men jeg finner samme påstand i en &lt;a
href=&quot;http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/&quot;&gt;bloggpost
fra Geir Aaslid&lt;/a&gt; på Piratpartietes offisielle nettsider.  Der
skriver han følgende:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett på levetid + 14 år er
fullt ut tilfredstillende for musikk, film, litteratur og spill.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det virker dermed på meg som om Piratpartiet allerede har gjort
retrett fra sin beundringsverdige holdning om at det holdt med 14 års
total vernetid, til sin nye som tar utgangspunkt i levetiden til
opphavspersonen.  Jeg håper det baserer seg på en misforståelse hos
piratlederen som blir korrigert tilbake til 14 års total vernetid før
partiet stiller til valg.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hvilke problemer lang vernetid bringer med seg,
anbefaler jeg å lese boken &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free
Culture&lt;/a&gt; av Lawrence Lessig.  Jeg og en liten gruppe andre er igang
med å
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;oversette
boken til bokmål&lt;/a&gt; og tar gjerne imot hjelp med oversettelse og
korrekturlesing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oppdatering 2012-12-20&lt;/strong&gt;: Oppdaget at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/&quot;&gt;bloggposten
til Geir Aaslid&lt;/a&gt; er endret siden i går, og nå inneholder følgende
avsnitt i stedet for det jeg siterte over:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett lik levetiden, evt + 14 år
er fullt ut tilfredstillende for mange skapere av musikk, film,
litteratur og spill. Det er for det meste de store forlagene som er
imot enhver reform.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I tillegg har det dukket opp en setning nederst &quot;Dette dokumentet
er et utkast til svar på et angrep på Piratpartiet fra Gramo. Det
endrer seg derfor over tid og den endelige versjonen er det som blir
publisert på Hardware.no&quot;, som tyder på at originalformuleringen ikke
var veloverveid og sitatet i Aftenposten kanskje var basert på en
misforståelse.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Why isn&#39;t the value of copyright taxed?</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;While working on a
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Norwegian
translation of the Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig&lt;/a&gt; (76% done),
which cover the problems with todays copyright law and how it stifles
creativity, one idea occurred to me.  The idea is to get the tax
office to help make more works enter the public domain and also help
make it easier to clear rights for using copyrighted works.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I mentioned this idea briefly during Yesterdays
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.farmann.no/2012/11/14/john-perry-barlow-in-oslo-friday-nov-16
-15-30-19-00/&quot;&gt;presentation
by John Perry Barlow&lt;/a&gt;, and concluded that it was best to put it
in writing for a wider audience.  The idea is not really based on the
argument that copyrighted works are &quot;intellectual property&quot;, as the
core requirement is that copyrighted work have value for the copyright
holder and the tax office like to collect their share from any value
controlled by the citizens in a country.  I&#39;m sharing the idea here to
let others consider it and perhaps shoot it down with a fresh set of
arguments.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most valuables are taxed by the government.  At least here in
Norway, the amount of money you have, the value of our land property,
the value of your house, the value of your car, the value of our
stocks and other valuables are all added together.  If the tax value
of these values exceed your debt, you have to pay the tax office some
taxes for these values.  And copyrighted work have value.  It have
value for the rights holder, who can earn money selling access to the
work.  But it is not included in the tax calculations?  Why not?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If the government want to tax copyrighted works, it would want to
maintain a database of all the copyrighted works and who are the
rights holders for a given works, to be able to associate the works
value to the right citizen or company for tax purposes.  If such
database exist, it will become a lot easier to find out who to talk to
for clearing permissions to use a copyrighted work, which is a very
hard operation with todays copyright law.  To ensure that copyright
holders keep the database up-to-date, it would have to become a
requirement to be able to collect money for granting access to
copyrighted works that the work is listed in the database with the
correct right holder.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If copyright causes copyright holders to have to pay more taxes,
they will have a small incentive to &quot;disown&quot; their copyright, and let
the work enter the public domain. For works with several right holders
one of the right holders could state (and get it registered in the
database) that she do not need to be consulted when clearing rights to
use the work in question and thus will not get any income from that
work.  Stating this would have to be impossible to revert and stop the
tax office from adding the value of that work to the given citizens
tax calculation.  I assume the copyright law would stay the same,
allowing creators to pick a license of their choosing, and also
allowing them to put their work directly in the public domain.  The
existence of such database will make it even easier to clear rights,
and if the right holders listed in the database is taxed, this system
would increase the amount of works that enter the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The effect would be that the tax office help to make it easier to
get rights to use the works that have not yet entered the public
domain and help to get more work into the public domain and .&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why have such taxing not happened yet?  I am sure the tax office
would like to tax copyrighted work values if they could.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book &lt;a
href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
those that are reluctant do read an English book.

When I started, I 
&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
for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:&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;Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
the project files currently available from
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
the updated
&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;
and
&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;
are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law
I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an
English book.  It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever
expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society.  When the
translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy
to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down
to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law.  This
summer I
&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
for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, and I have been able to secure the
valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark.  Then more than 50% of
the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also
titles and index entries are also counted).  All parts from the
beginning up to and including chapter four is translated.  So is
chapters six, seven and the conclusion.  I created a graph to show the
progress:&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;The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index
entries into the docbook.  They were missing with the docbook version
I initially started with.  There are still quite a few index entries
missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done.  I
currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete
english version of the docbook source.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
around?  I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to
me.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the
project files currently available from &lt;a
href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
the updated
&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;
and
&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;
are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; one can specify
the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
this information to pick the correct translations for &#39;chapter&#39;, &#39;see
also&#39;, &#39;index&#39; etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
with &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;de&quot;&amp;gt;, and the document will show up with the
correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
case for the language
&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
am working with at the moment&lt;/a&gt;, Norwegian Bokmål.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
of them do not handle it at all.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
is &#39;no&#39;, Norwegian Nynorsk is &#39;nn&#39; and Norwegian Bokmål is &#39;nb&#39;.
Historically the &#39;no&#39; language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure &#39;no&#39; was an
alias for &#39;nb&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
understand &#39;nn&#39;.  There are translations for &#39;no&#39;, but not &#39;nb&#39; (BTS
&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/684391&quot;&gt;#684391&lt;/a&gt;), but due to a bug
(BTS &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;#682936&lt;/a&gt;) the &#39;no&#39;
language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
recognise &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The xmlto tool only recognise
&#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The end result that there is no language
code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
at the same time. :(&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The correct solution is to use &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;nb&quot;&amp;gt;, but it will
take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
processors. :(&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Best way to create a docbook book?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best_way_to_create_a_docbook_book_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I tried to send this text to the
&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/&quot;&gt;docbook-apps
mailing list at lists.oasis-open.org&lt;/a&gt;, but it only accept messages
from subscribers and rejected my post, and I completely lack the
bandwidth required to subscribe to another mailing list, so instead I
try to post my message here and hope my blog readers can help me
out.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am quite new to docbook processing, and am climbing a steep
learning curve at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To give you some background, I am working on a Norwegian
translation of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, and I use
docbook to handle the process.  The files to build the book are
available from
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
The book got around 400 pages with parts, images, footnotes, tables,
index entries etc, which has proven to be a challenge for the free
software docbook processors.  My build platform is Debian GNU/Linux
Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I want to build PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book, and have
tried different tool chains to do the conversion from docbook to these
formats.  I am currently focusing on the PDF version, and have a few
problems.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Using dblatex, the &amp;lt;part&amp;gt; handling is not the way I want to,
   as &amp;lt;/part&amp;gt; do not really end the &amp;lt;part&amp;gt;. (See
   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683166&quot;&gt;BTS report #683166&lt;/a&gt;), the
   xetex backend (needed to process UTF-8) give incorrect hyphens in
   index references spanning several pages (See
   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682901&quot;&gt;BTS report #682901&lt;/a&gt;), and
   I am unable to get the norwegian template texts (See
   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;BTS report #682936&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Using straight xmlto fail with some latex error (See
   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683163&quot;&gt;BTS report
   #683163&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Using xmlto with the fop backend fail to handle images (do not
   show up in the PDF), fail to handle a long footnote (overlap
   footnote and text body, see
   &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683197&quot;&gt;BTS report #683197&lt;/a&gt;), and
   fail to create a correct index (some lack page ref, and the page
   refs listed are not right).&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Using xmlto with the dblatex backend behave like dblatex.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Using docbook-xls with xsltproc + fop have the same footnote and
   index problems the xmlto + fop processing.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So I wonder, what would be the best way to create the PDF version
of this book?  Are some of the bugs found above solved in new or
experimental versions of some docbook tool chain?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What about HTML and EPUB versions?&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Free Culture in Norwegian - 5 chapters done, 74 percent left to do</title>
                <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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                <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I reported earlier that I am working on
&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
norwegian version&lt;/a&gt; of the book
&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
Progress is good, and yesterday I got a major contribution from Anders
Hagen Jarmund completing chapter six.  The source files as well as a
PDF and EPUB version of this book are available from
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that the draft for the first two chapters
(preface, introduction) is complete, and three other chapters are also
completely translated.  This completes 26 percent of the number of
strings (equivalent to paragraphs) in the book, and there is thus 74
percent left to translate.  A graph of the progress is present at the
bottom of the github project page.  There is still room for more
contributors.  Get in touch or send github pull requests with fixes if
you got time and are willing to help make this book make it to
print. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The book translation framework could also be a good basis for other
translations, if you want the book to be available in your
language.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Call for help from docbook expert to tag Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</title>
                <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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                <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I am currently working on a
&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
to translate&lt;/a&gt; the book
&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig
to Norwegian.  And the source we base our translation on is the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version, to
allow us to use po4a and .po files to handle the translation, and for
this to work well the docbook source document need to be properly
tagged.  The source files of this project is available from
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the docbook source have flaws, and we have
no-one involved in the project that is a docbook expert.  Is there a
docbook expert somewhere that is interested in helping us create a
well tagged docbook version of the book, and adjust our build process
for the PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book?  This will provide a
well tagged English version (our source document), and make it a lot
easier for us to create a good Norwegian version.  If you can and want
to help, please get in touch with me or fork the github project and
send pull requests with fixes. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Fri programvare - &quot;fri&quot; som i &quot;talefrihet&quot;, ikke som i &quot;fri bar&quot;</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_programvare____fri__som_i__talefrihet___ikke_som_i__fri_bar_.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_programvare____fri__som_i__talefrihet___ikke_som_i__fri_bar_.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Et ofte brukt sitat i fri programvareverden er Stallman-sitatet
«&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en&quot;&gt;Free Software,
&quot;free&quot; as in &quot;free speech&quot;, not as in &quot;free beer&quot;&lt;/a&gt;».  Men det er
ikke direkte overførbart til norsk, da det baserer seg på koblingen
gratis/fri på engelsk.  En direkte oversettelse ville være «Fri
programvare, &quot;fri&quot; som i &quot;talefrihet&quot;, ikke som &quot;gratis øl&quot;», og det
går jo glipp av poenget.  I forbindelse med at vi er
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;igang
med å oversette&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt;
av Lawrence Lessig, måtte jeg forsøke a finne en bedre
oversettelse.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mitt forslag til oversettelse blir dermed å droppe ølet, og heller
fokusere på det kjente norske uttrykket &quot;fri bar&quot;.  Dermed blir
oversettelsen «Fri programvare - &quot;fri&quot; som i &quot;talefrihet&quot;, ikke som i
&quot;fri bar&quot;».&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Noen som har bedre forslag?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Forøvrig bruker jeg fri programvare som et samlebegrep på norsk for
begge de engelske uttrykkene Free Software og Open Source, jamfør
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dokumenter/folder-friprogramvare.pdf&quot;&gt;NUUGs
lille folder om temaet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Dugnad for å sende norsk versjon av Free Culture til stortingets representanter!</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html</guid>
                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Da opphavsrettsloven ble revidert i forrige runde rundt 2005, var
det skummelt å se hvor lite stortingsrepresentantene forsto hvordan
Internet påvirket folks forhold til kulturuttrykk, og min venn Vidar
og jeg spekulert på at det hadde kanskje vært fornuftig om samtlige
representanter fikk en norsk utgave av boken
&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; av Lawrence Lessig
som forklarte litt om problemstillingene.  Vi endte opp med å
prioritere utvikling i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet i
stedet, så den oversatte boken så aldri dagens lys.  Men i forrige uke
ble jeg inspirert til å ta opp tråden og se om det er mulig å få til
bokprosjektet denne gang, da det er tydelig at kulturdepartementet i
sitt nye forsøk på å gjøre opphavsrettsloven enda mer ubalansert til
fordel for forlag og store mediehus fortsatt trenger en annen vinkling
i debatten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Planen min er å oversette boka på dugnad, sette den opp for
trykking med en av de mange
&lt;a href=&quot;http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trykk_på_forespørsel&quot;&gt;trykk på
forespørsel&lt;/a&gt;-tjenestene, skaffe sponsor til å finansiere trykking
til stortingsrepresentantene og alle som har bidratt med
oversettelser.  Kanskje vi også kan få en avtale med et forlag om
publisering når boka er ferdig?  Kommentarene til
&lt;a href=&quot;http://newth.net/eirik/2011/04/01/e-selvpublisering/&quot;&gt;Eirik
Newth&lt;/a&gt; og
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.espen.com/norskblogg/archives/2008/09/erfaringer_med_publishing_on_demand.html&quot;&gt;Espen
Andersen&lt;/a&gt; om erfaringene med selvpublisering og trykk på
forespørsel er interessante og ikke avskrekkende, og jeg mistenker at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu&lt;/a&gt; er en grei leverandør av
trykketjenester til prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg har satt opp
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;et
Github-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt; for a lage boken, basert på Docbook-utgaven jeg
fant fra Hans Schou.  Skolelinux har hatt byggesystem for å lage
oversatt HTML og PDF-utgave av Docbook-bøker i en årrekke, så jeg har
kopiert og utvidet dette oppsettet.  Originalteksten er i Docbook, og
oversettelsen gjøres i .po-filer med hjelp av vanlige
oversetterverktøy brukt i fri programvareverden.  Dernest tar
byggesystemet over og lager PDF og EPUB-utgave av den oversatte
teksten.  Resultatet kan ses i Github-prosjektet.  For å komme raskt
igang har jeg brukt maskinoversettelse av alle tekstbitene fra engelsk
til norsk, noe som grovoversatte ca. 1300 av de ca. 1700 tekstbitene
boken består av.  Jeg håper nå at flere kan bidra med å få
oversettelsen på plass, slik at teksten kan være klar i løpet av
høsten.  Når alt er oversatt må teksten gjennomgås for feil og
konsistent språk.  Totalt er det nok mange timer som trengs for å
gjennomføre oversettelsen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Økonomien i dette er ikke avskrekkende.  169
stortingsrepresentanter og nesten like mange varamedlemmer bør få
bøker, og estimert produduksjonskostnad for hver bok er rundt 6 EURO i
følge et raskt estimat fra Lulu.  Jeg vet ennå ikke hvor mange sider
det blir i størrelsen 5,5&quot; x 8.5&quot; (det er ca. 140 sider i A4-format),
så jeg gjettet på 400 sider.  Jeg tror originalutgaven har nesten 400
sider.  For 169*2 eksemplarer snakker vi om en trykkekostnad på
ca. 2000 EURO, dvs. ca 15 000 NOK.  Det burde være mulig å finne en
sponsor for å dekke en slik sum.  I tillegg kommer distribusjon og
porto, som antagelig kommer på like mye.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Kan du bidra med oversettelse og docbook-typesetting?  Ta kontakt
og send patcher i github.  Jeg legger gjerne inn folk i prosjektet
slik at du kan oppdatere direkte.&lt;/p&gt;
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