- <title>First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped. As the translation is
-mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
-on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
-<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> based version of the
-<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> book by Lawrence
-Lessig. I've been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
-give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
-its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
-helpful in solving my formatting challenges.</p>
-
-<p>Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
-<a href="http://www.lulu.com/">Lulu.com</a> complain after uploading,
-and I ordered a text version of the book on paper. It is lacking a
-proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
-should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.</p>
-
-<p>Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
-<a href="http://www.createspace.com/">CreateSpace</a>, but ended up
-using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
-to lack pocket book with extended distribution). I looked for a
-similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far. Please
-let me know if I am missing out on something here.</p>
-
-<p>But I still struggle to decide the book size. Should I go for
-pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest
-(5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
-15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages? Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
-smaller book is easier to carry around. The test book I ordered was
-pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
-but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
-bring the prize down further.</p>
-
-<p>My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art. My
-inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
-cover in SVG format. I also need to figure out what to write about
-the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
-description on web based book stores). I would love help with this,
-if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
-the same CC license as the book. My artistic skills are not really up
-to the task.</p>
-
-<p>I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
-paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format. The current
-status can as usual be found on
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
-in the archive/ directory. So far I have spent all time on making the
-PDF version look good. Someone should probably do the same with the
-dbtoepub generated e-book. Help is definitely needed here, as I
-expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
-formatting.</p>
-
-<p>Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
-discover translations that should be improved. The final proof
-reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
-result in a few months.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I'm still working on the Norwegian version of the
-<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture book by Lawrence
-Lessig</a>, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout.
-One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the
-original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes
-chapter. Based on the
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/685063">feedback from the Debian
-maintainer and the dblatex developer</a>, I came up with this recipe I
-would like to share with you. The proposal was to create a new LaTeX
-class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always
-practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make
-file variable. So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL
-parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in
-the generated LaTeX File.</p>
-
-<p>First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes,
-and add this text there:</p>
-
-<pre>
-&lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&gt;
-</pre>
-
-<p>Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the
-code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the
-generated LaTeX document, with content like this:</p>
-
-<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:param name="latex.begindocument"&gt;
- &lt;xsl:text&gt;
-\usepackage{endnotes}
-\let\footnote=\endnote
-\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
-\begin{document}
- &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
- &lt;/xsl:param&gt;
-&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre>
-
-<p>Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like
-this:</p>
-
-<pre>
-dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
-</pre>
-
-<p>The end result can be seen on github, where
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
-book project</a> is located.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Mimes brønn, norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow, endelig lansert</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I går fikk vi endelig lansert en norsk version av mySocietys
-<a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/">WhatDoTheyKnow</a>.
-Tjenesten heter Mimes brønn, og ble
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/NUUG_lanserer_innsynstjenesten_Mimes_Br_nn.shtml">annonsert
-av NUUG</a> via blogg, epost og twitter til NUUG-assosierte personer.
-Det har tatt noen år, men de siste dagene fikk vi endelig tid til å få
-på plass de siste bitene. Vi er to, Gorm og meg selv, som har vært
-primus motor for det hele, men vi har fått hjelp med oversettelser og
-oppsett fra mange flere. Jeg vil si tusen takk til hver og en av dem,
-og er veldig fornøyd med at vi klarte å få tjenesten opp å kjøre før
-ferietiden slo inn for fullt.</p>
-
-<p>Vi er usikker på hvor mye belastning den virtuelle maskinen der
-tjenesten kjører klarer, så vi har lansert litt i det stille og ikke
-til for mange folk for å se hvordan maskinen klarer seg over sommeren,
-før vi går mer aktivt ut og annonserer til høsten. Ta en titt, og se
-om du kanskje har et spørsmål til det offentlige som er egnet å sende
-inn via Mimes brønn.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du lurer på hva i alle dager en slik tjenestes kan brukes til,
-anbefaler jeg deg å se
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625321">TED-foredraget til
-Heather Brook</a> om hvordan hun brukte WhatDoTheyKnow til å lære
-hvordan offentlige midler ble misbrukt. Det er en inspirerende
-historie.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>MPEG LA on "Internet Broadcast AVC Video" licensing and non-private use</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>After asking the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK)
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_gj_r_at_NRK_kan_distribuere_H_264_video_uten_patentavtale_med_MPEG_LA_.html">why
-they can broadcast and stream H.264 video without an agreement with
-the MPEG LA</a>, I was wiser, but still confused. So I asked MPEG LA
-if their understanding matched that of NRK. As far as I can tell, it
-does not.</p>
-
-<p>I started by asking for more information about the various
-licensing classes and what exactly is covered by the "Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video" class that NRK pointed me at to explain why NRK
-did not need a license for streaming H.264 video: