- <title>Alternativindustrien og NRKs Folkeopplysningen - debatten så langt</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Alternativindustrien_og_NRKs_Folkeopplysningen___debatten_s__langt.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>NRKs program
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/folkeopplysningen/">Folkeopplysningen</a>
-har tatt en vitenskapelig titt på alternativindustrien, og dette har
-skapt debatt. Merkelig nok liten debatt om hva alternativindustiren
-driver med, og mer debatt om hva NRKs program driver med, men slik er
-det vel i et land som flyter av melk og honning. Jeg har lest
-artikler og innlegg relatert til programmene med interesse, og har
-forsøkt å samle alle debattinnleggene her.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>2012-10-16
-<a href="http://fritanke.no/index.php?page=vis_nyhet&NyhetID=8936">Sukkerpiller
-og silkehansker</a> - fritanke.no.</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-15
-<a href="http://www.aftenbladet.no/meninger/Vitenskapelig-mobbing-3049983.html">«Vitenskapelig»
-mobbing</a> - aftenbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-14
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Alternativt-pa-alvor-7016267.html">Alternativt på alvor</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-12
-<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/10/12/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/vitenskap/folkeopplysningen/23839180/">Folkeopplysningen
-gjør ting de bør</a> - dagbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-12
-<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/debatt/2012/resirkulert_vitenskapsrelativisme">Resirkulert
-vitenskapsrelativisme</a> - morgenbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-12
-<a href="http://www.verdidebatt.no/debatt/cat1/subcat8/thread321612/">«Vitenskaplig»
-mobbing av alternativ medisin</a> - verdidebatt.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-12
-<a href="http://skepsis.no/blog/?p=8178">«One may throw sand in the
-bull’s eyes». Retoriske strategier og «Folkeopplysningen»</a> -
-skepsis.no blogg</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-12
-<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/debatt/2012/kvakksalveriets_apologet">Kvakksalveriets apologet</a> - morgenbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-09
-<a href="http://www.nordlys.no/kultur/article6277180.ece">- Vår bransje
-trenger å kvalitetssikres</a> - nordlys.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-09
-<a href="http://www.oa.no/lesernes_oa/leserbrev/article6276725.ece">Rett
-og slett et pinlig program</a> - oa.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-06
-<a href="http://www.rb.no/lokale_nyheter/article6271250.ece">Raser mot
-NRK-program</a> - rb.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-05
-<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/debatt/2012/den_nye_entydigheten">Den
-nye entydigheten</a> - morgenbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-05
-<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/10/05/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/tv/folkeopplysningen/23731242/">Folkeopplysning
-eller heksejakt?</a> - dagbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-04
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/NRK-programleder---Vi-har-ikke-provd-a-drite-ut-noen-7008656.html">NRK-programleder:
-- Vi har ikke prøvd å drite ut noen</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-04
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Ondskapsfull-harselas-7008319.html">Ondskapsfull
-harselas</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-03
-<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/10/03/kultur/debatt/kronikk/tv/folkeopplysning/23702976/">Andreas
-Wahl gjør ting han ikke kan</a> - dagbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-10-01
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/unnga-skyttergravskrig-1.8338317">Unngå
-skyttergravskrig</a> - nrk.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-29
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Et-skeptisk-forsvar-for-det-alternative-7004309.html">Et
-skeptisk forsvar for det alternative</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-27
-<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/ideer/2012/ekte_placebo">Ekte placebo</a> - morgenbladet.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-27
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/folkeopplysningens-feilgrep-1.8337842">Folkeopplysning
-med galt utgangspunkt</a> - nrk.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-27
-<a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/27/folkeopplysningen-akupunkturforeningen-pynter-pa-sannheten/">Folkeopplysningen:
-Akupunkturforeningen pynter på sannheten</a> - tjomlid.com blogg</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-26
-<a href="http://skepsis.no/blog/?p=8168">Avklaring om Skepsis og
-«Folkeopplysningen»</a> - skepsis.no blogg</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-24
-<a href="http://fritanke.no/index.php?page=vis_nyhet&NyhetID=8919">Klager
-Folkeopplysningen inn for PFU</a> - fritanke.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-24
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/homeopati-er-kommet-for-a-bli-1.8333981">Homeopati
-er kommet for å bli</a> - nrk.no</li>
-
-<li>2012-09-24
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.8330793">Homeopater
-ble advart mot Folkeopplysningen</a> - nrk.no</li>
+ <title>Change the font, save the world (and save some money in the process)</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same
+time, without much sacrifice? A small step could be to change the
+font you use when printing.</p>
+
+<p>Three years ago,
+<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/">Ars
+Technica</a> reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
+changed their default front from
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial</a> to
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic">Century
+Gothic</a> to save money. The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner
+than Arial to print the same text. In other word, you could cut your
+toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time
+by more than 30%), by simply changing the default font used in your
+prints.</p>
+
+<p>But it is not quite obvious how much one will safe by switching.
+The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
+on ink and toner cartridges, according to
+<a href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097">a report from
+TwinCities.com</a>, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000
+per year by asking staff and students to use a different font. Not
+all PDFs and documents are created internally, and those from external
+sources will most likely still use a different font. Also, the
+Century Gothic font is slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use
+more sheets of paper to print the same text, so the total saving
+depend on the documents printed.</p>
+
+<p>But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce
+the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world,
+and save some money in the process.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few days ago, during a discussion in
+<a href="http://www.efn.no/">EFN</a> about interesting books to read
+about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
+the 1968 short story Kodémus by
+<a href="http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/">Tore Åge Bringsværd</a>
+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 <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/">Creative
+Commons</a> license. The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
+were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">DocBook</a> 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, <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>, so
+all I had to do was to use the
+<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a>,
+<a href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README">dbtoepub</a>
+and <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/">xmlto</a> tools to do the
+conversion. After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
+xsltproc/fop (aka
+<a href="http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets">docbook-xsl</a>),
+to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
+nicer &lt;variablelist&gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
+technical detail.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
+single star in it, ie &lt;para&gt;*&lt;/para&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 &lt;?newscene?&gt;, mapping to "&lt;hr/&gt;"
+for HTML and "&lt;fo:block text-align="center"&gt;&lt;fo:leader
+leader-pattern="rule" rule-thickness="0.5pt"/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;"
+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:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
+&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
+ &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('newscene')"&gt;
+ &lt;hr/&gt;
+ &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
+&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
+&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
+ &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('newscene')"&gt;
+ &lt;fo:block text-align="center"&gt;
+ &lt;fo:leader leader-pattern="rule" rule-thickness="0.5pt"/&gt;
+ &lt;/fo:block&gt;
+ &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
+&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Finally, I came across the &lt;bridgehead&gt; tag, which seem to be
+a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &lt;?newscene?&gt;
+with &lt;bridgehead&gt;*&lt;/bridgehead&gt;. It isn't centred, but we
+can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn't
+enough.</p>
+
+<p>I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
+linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
+directive &lt;?linebreak?&gt;, mapping to &lt;br/&gt; in HTML, and
+&lt;fo:block/&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:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
+&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
+ &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('linebreak)"&gt;
+ &lt;br/&gt;
+ &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
+&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
+&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'
+ xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"&gt;
+ &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('linebreak)"&gt;
+ &lt;fo:block/&gt;
+ &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
+&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
+<a href="https://github.com/sickel/kodemus">source repository at
+github</a>
+(<a href="https://github.com/EFN/kodemus">future/new/official
+repository</a>). We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
+days.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Regjeringen, FAD og DIFI går inn for å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk standard i det offentlige</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__FAD_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I
+<a href="http://standard.difi.no/hoyring/forslag-om-endring-av-forskrift-om-it-standarder-i-offentlig-forvaltning">siste
+høring</a> om
+<a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">referansekatalogen
+for IT-standarder i offentlig sektor</a>, med høringsfrist 2012-09-30
+(DIFI-sak 2012/498), ble det foreslått å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk
+standard når en publiserte dokumenter som skulle kunne redigeres
+videre av mottaker. NUUG og andre protesterte på forslaget, som er et
+langt steg tilbake når det gjelder å sikre like rettigheter for alle
+når en kommuniserer med det offentlige. For noen dager siden ble jeg
+oppmerksom på at Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT (DIFI) og
+Fornyings-,administrasjons- og kirkedepartementet (FAD) har
+konkludert, og oversendt forslag til regjeringen i saken. FADs
+dokument
+<a href="http://www.oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&descType=both&caseNumber=2012%2F2168&senderType=both&documentType=all&list2=94&searchType=advanced&Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler">2012/2168</a>-8,
+«Utkast til endring av standardiseringsforskriften» datert 2013-02-06
+har følgende triste oppsummering fra høringen i saken:</p>
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