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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, the last year I published
  15 a French and Norwegian translation of the classic
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book&lt;/a&gt; by the
  17 founder of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig.  A bit less
  18 known is the fact that due to the way I created the translations,
  19 using docbook and po4a, I also recreated the English original.  And
  20 because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I published it
  21 too.  The revenue from the books are sent to the Creative Commons
  22 Corporation.  In other words, I do not earn any money from this
  23 project, I just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available
  24 for a wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative
  25 Commons is needed.&lt;/p&gt;
  26
  27 &lt;p&gt;Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
  28 Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping.  Much to
  29 my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
  30 French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
  31 available in English since it was first published.  In total, 24 paper
  32 books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:&lt;/p&gt;
  33
  34 &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;
  35 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Title / language&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Quantity&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  36 &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;
  37 &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;
  38 &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;
  39 &lt;/table&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;p&gt;The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
  42 stores like Amazon and Barnes&amp;Noble.  Most revenue, around $10 per
  43 book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
  44 directly by Lulu.com.  The other channels give less revenue.  The
  45 summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold via the Amazon channel, 10
  46 via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly by Lulu.  And Lulu.com tells
  47 me that the revenue sent so far this year is USD $101.42.  No idea
  48 what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do not know if that is a
  49 good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or not.  But it make me
  50 happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope they enjoy reading it
  51 as much as I did.&lt;/p&gt;
  52
  53 &lt;p&gt;The ebook edition is available for free from
  54 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
  57 language, I would be happy to help make it happen.  Please get in
  58 touch.&lt;/p&gt;
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  63                 <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble</title>
  64                 <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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  66                 <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
  67                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
  68 2004 book Cultura Libre was published.  Today I noticed that the book
  69 is now available from book stores.  You can now buy it from
  70 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
  71 ($19.99),
  72 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705&quot;&gt;Barnes
  73 &amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ($?) and as always from
  74 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
  75 ($19.99).  The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project.  If
  76 you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
  77 from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
  78 and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
  79 less).&lt;/p&gt;
  80
  81 &lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
  82 sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon.  Not quite sure how
  83 that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
  84 edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
  85 the paperback edition, they are
  86 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;available
  87 from github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  92                 <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
  93                 <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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  95                 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  96                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m happy to report that
  97 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;the
  98 French paperback edition&lt;/a&gt; of
  99 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
 100 project to translate&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free
 101 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
 102 Lulu.com.  Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
 103 should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
 104 book stores like Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble too.&lt;/p&gt;
 105
 106 &lt;p&gt;This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
 107 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; developer Benoît
 108 Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
 109 available from
 110 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;the Wikilivres
 111 wiki pages&lt;/a&gt; and completed and corrected the translation to match
 112 the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
 113 coordinated the proof reading of the final result.  I believe the end
 114 result look great, but I am biased and do not read French.  In
 115 addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
 116 and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.&lt;/p&gt;
 117
 118 &lt;p&gt;When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
 119 triple the price to allow the book stores some profit.  I also had to
 120 accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
 121 But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
 122 (CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem.  To bypass the problem I
 123 discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
 124 that the revenue for these editions go to the
 125 &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons non-profit
 126 Corporation&lt;/a&gt; who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
 127 So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
 128 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;
 129 and
 130 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Norwegian
 131 Bokmål&lt;/a&gt; editions, according to Lulu.com.  They will get the revenue
 132 for the French edition too.  Their revenue is higher if you buy the
 133 book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
 134 recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.&lt;/p&gt;
 135
 136 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
 137 The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
 138 technical bar to enter is fairly low.  Get in touch if you would like
 139 to make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;
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 144                 <title>&quot;Fri kultur&quot; av @lessig - norsk utgave av &quot;Free Culture&quot; tilgjengelig på papir, PDF og ePub</title>
 145                 <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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 147                 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 148                 <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;
 149
 150 &lt;p&gt;I 2004, mens &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
 151 Commons-bevegelsen&lt;/a&gt; vokste frem, skrev bevegelsens stifter Lawrence
 152 Lessig boken
 153 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
 154 Culture&lt;/a&gt; for å forklare problemene med økene åndsverksregulering og
 155 for å foreslå noen løsninger.  Jeg leste boken den gangen, og den både
 156 inspirerte meg og endret på hvordan jeg så på opphavsrettslovigving.
 157 Jeg skulle ønske flere folk leste denne boken.  Den gir en god
 158 gjennomgang av hvordan økende åndsverksregulering skader både
 159 nyskapning og kulturlivet, og skisserer hvordan både lovgivere og oss
 160 vanlige borgere kan bidra for å få slutt på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
 161
 162 &lt;p&gt;Derfor bestemte jeg meg sommeren 2012 for å oversette den til norsk
 163 bokmål og gjøre den tilgjengelig for de blant mine venner og familie
 164 som foretrekker å lese bøker på norsk.  Jeg oversatte boken ved hjelp
 165 av docbook og en gettext PO-fil, og endte opp med to utgaver, en på
 166 norsk og en på engelsk.  Den engelske publiserte jeg i forrige uke, og
 167 den norske utgaven på papir
 168 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;er
 169 nå klar for salg&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg fikk heldigvis hjelp med oversetting og
 170 korrekturlesing av den norske utgaven fra en rekke frivillige.  Se
 171 side 245 for en komplett liste.  Slik ser omslaget ut:
 172
 173 &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;
 174
 175 &lt;p&gt;I tillegg til den norske og engelske utgaven holder vi på med en
 176 fransk utgave.  Den koordineres av dblatex-utvikleren Benoît Guillon,
 177 og oversettelsen var komplett denne uka men må korrekturleses før den
 178 kan gis ut.  Flere frivillige trengs her, så ta kontakt med Benoît
 179 hvis du vil bidra.&lt;/p&gt;
 180
 181 &lt;p&gt;Boken er også tilgjengelig i PDF, ePub og MOBI-format fra
 182 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;min
 183 github-prosjektside&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at ePub og MOBI-utgavene har noen
 184 formatteringsproblemer som jeg tror kommer av feil i docbook-verktøyet
 185 dbtoepub (Debian BTS-rapporter
 186 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
 187 og
 188 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
 189 men jeg har ikke tatt meg tid til å undersøke problemene.  For de som
 190 vil ha elektronisk kopi anbefaler jeg å bruke PDF- og ePub-utgaven i
 191 denne omgang, da de ser ut til å hånderes bra av de fremviserne jeg
 192 har tilgjengelig.&lt;/p&gt;
 193
 194 &lt;p&gt;Etter at oversettelsen til bokmål var ferdig klarte jeg å overtale
 195 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; til å
 196 sponse trykking av boken.  Det er årsaken til at stiftelsens logo er
 197 på baksiden av omslaget.  Jeg er svært takknemlig for dette, og bruker
 198 bidraget til å gi en kopi av den norske utgaven til alle
 199 Stortingsrepresentanter og andre beslutningstakere her i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
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 204                 <title>&quot;Free Culture&quot; by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available</title>
 205                 <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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 207                 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 208                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;Click
 209 here to buy the book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 210
 211 &lt;p&gt;In 2004, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
 212 movement&lt;/a&gt; gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
 213 book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
 214 Culture&lt;/a&gt; to explain the problems with increasing copyright
 215 regulation and suggest some solutions.  I read the book back then and
 216 was very moved by it.  Reading the book inspired me and changed the
 217 way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
 218 would read it too.&lt;/p&gt;
 219
 220 &lt;p&gt;Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
 221 Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
 222 that prefer to read books in Norwegian.  I translated the book using
 223 docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
 224 new edition of the English original.  I&#39;ve been in touch with the
 225 author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
 226 published an English version.  So I decided to do so.  Today, I made
 227 this edition
 228 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;available
 229 for sale on Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;, for those interested in a paper book.  This
 230 is the cover:
 231
 232 &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;
 233
 234 &lt;p&gt;The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
 235 few days.  I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
 236 months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
 237 join the translation project.  So far there is only one active
 238 person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
 239 need some proof reading.&lt;/p&gt;
 240
 241 &lt;p&gt;The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
 242 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
 243 github project page&lt;/a&gt;.  Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
 244 formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
 245 dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
 246 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
 247 and
 248 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
 249 but I have not taken the time to investigate.  I recommend the PDF and
 250 ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
 251 have available.&lt;/p&gt;
 252
 253 &lt;p&gt;After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
 254 to secure some sponsoring from
 255 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; to
 256 print the book.  This is the reason their logo is located on the back
 257 cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
 258 give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
 259 Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
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 264                 <title>French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book</title>
 265                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html</link>
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 267                 <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
 268                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As I wrap up the Norwegian version of
 269 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Free
 270 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof
 271 reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great
 272 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt; helper and
 273 developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a
 274 to try to create a French version of the book.  He started with the
 275 French translation available from the
 276 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre&quot;&gt;Wikilivres wiki
 277 pages&lt;/a&gt;, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing
 278 the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use
 279 to create the Norwegian translation from the English edition.  We meet
 280 on the &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex&quot;&gt;#dblatex IRC
 281 channel&lt;/a&gt; to discuss the work.  If you want to help create a French
 282 edition, check out
 283 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/marsgui/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;his git
 284 repository&lt;/a&gt; and join us on IRC.  If the French edition look good,
 285 we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com.  A French version of
 286 the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.&lt;/p&gt;
 287 </description>
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 291                 <title>Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done</title>
 292                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html</link>
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 294                 <pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 295                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected.
 296 I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of
 297 the
 298 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Free
 299 Culture&lt;/a&gt; book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in
 300 vector format for high resolution printing.  But my inkscape knowledge
 301 were not nearly good enough to pull that off.
 302
 303 &lt;p&gt;But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
 304 the cover yesterday evening.  I asked on the
 305 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape&quot;&gt;#inkscape IRC channel&lt;/a&gt;
 306 on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered
 307 to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
 308 version.  Not only did he create a
 309 &lt;a href=&quot;https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg &quot;&gt;SVG document with
 310 the original and his vector version side by side&lt;/a&gt;, he even provided
 311 an &lt;a href=&quot;https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv&quot;&gt;instruction
 312 video&lt;/a&gt; explaining how he did it&lt;/a&gt;.  But the instruction video is
 313 not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a
 314 recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as
 315 the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did
 316 use some keyboard shortcuts that can&#39;t be seen on the video, but it
 317 give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the
 318 stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.&lt;/p&gt;
 319
 320 &lt;p&gt;I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit
 321 on the cover I was drawing.  I am happy with the end result, and the
 322 current english version look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 323
 324 &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;
 325
 326 &lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will
 327 do.  I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and
 328 hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers.  The
 329 Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code
 330 replaced with the Norwegian version.&lt;/p&gt;
 331
 332 &lt;p&gt;The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect
 333 to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a
 334 final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should
 335 before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in
 336 English or Norwegian Bokmål.  I&#39;m waiting to give the the productive
 337 proof readers a chance to complete their work.&lt;/p&gt;
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 342                 <title>In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!</title>
 343                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html</link>
 344                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html</guid>
 345                 <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 346                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian
 347 translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few
 348 years arrived in the mail.  I had to fake a cover to get the interior
 349 printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is
 350 irrelevant at this point.  I asked for a printed pocket book version
 351 to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how
 352 good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the
 353 pocket book version would look like.  After receiving the 500 page
 354 pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too
 355 small for this book.  I believe the book is too thick, and several
 356 tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that
 357 small page sizes.  I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size
 358 instead.  A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the
 359 URLs look in print.  They are very hard to read in the colophon page.
 360 The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper.  I need to
 361 change the color of links somehow to look better.  But there is a
 362 printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 363
 364 &lt;p&gt;Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the
 365 store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof
 366 readers before the book is ready for proper printing.  Cover artists
 367 willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector
 368 file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as
 369 a graphics designer are mostly missing.&lt;/p&gt;
 370 </description>
 371         </item>
 372
 373         <item>
 374                 <title>First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</title>
 375                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</link>
 376                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</guid>
 377                 <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
 378                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped.  As the translation is
 379 mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
 380 on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
 381 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; based version of the
 382 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence
 383 Lessig.  I&#39;ve been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
 384 give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
 385 its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
 386 helpful in solving my formatting challenges.&lt;/p&gt;
 387
 388 &lt;p&gt;Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
 389 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt; complain after uploading,
 390 and I ordered a text version of the book on paper.  It is lacking a
 391 proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
 392 should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.&lt;/p&gt;
 393
 394 &lt;p&gt;Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
 395 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.createspace.com/&quot;&gt;CreateSpace&lt;/a&gt;, but ended up
 396 using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
 397 to lack pocket book with extended distribution).  I looked for a
 398 similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far.  Please
 399 let me know if I am missing out on something here.&lt;/p&gt;
 400
 401 &lt;p&gt;But I still struggle to decide the book size.  Should I go for
 402 pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest
 403 (5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
 404 15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages?  Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
 405 smaller book is easier to carry around.  The test book I ordered was
 406 pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
 407 but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
 408 bring the prize down further.&lt;/p&gt;
 409
 410 &lt;p&gt;My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art.  My
 411 inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
 412 cover in SVG format.  I also need to figure out what to write about
 413 the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
 414 description on web based book stores).  I would love help with this,
 415 if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
 416 the same CC license as the book.  My artistic skills are not really up
 417 to the task.&lt;/p&gt;
 418
 419 &lt;p&gt;I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
 420 paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format.  The current
 421 status can as usual be found on
 422 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
 423 in the archive/ directory.  So far I have spent all time on making the
 424 PDF version look good.  Someone should probably do the same with the
 425 dbtoepub generated e-book.  Help is definitely needed here, as I
 426 expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
 427 formatting.&lt;/p&gt;
 428
 429 &lt;p&gt;Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
 430 discover translations that should be improved.  The final proof
 431 reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
 432 result in a few months.&lt;/p&gt;
 433 </description>
 434         </item>
 435
 436         <item>
 437                 <title>Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex</title>
 438                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</link>
 439                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</guid>
 440                 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
 441                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m still working on the Norwegian version of the
 442 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book by Lawrence
 443 Lessig&lt;/a&gt;, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout.
 444 One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the
 445 original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes
 446 chapter.  Based on the
 447 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/685063&quot;&gt;feedback from the Debian
 448 maintainer and the dblatex developer&lt;/a&gt;, I came up with this recipe I
 449 would like to share with you.  The proposal was to create a new LaTeX
 450 class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always
 451 practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make
 452 file variable.  So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL
 453 parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in
 454 the generated LaTeX File.&lt;/p&gt;
 455
 456 &lt;p&gt;First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes,
 457 and add this text there:&lt;/p&gt;
 458
 459 &lt;pre&gt;
 460 &amp;lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&amp;gt;
 461 &lt;/pre&gt;
 462
 463 &lt;p&gt;Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the
 464 code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the
 465 generated LaTeX document, with content like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 466
 467 &lt;pre&gt;
 468 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 469 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 470   &amp;lt;xsl:param name=&quot;latex.begindocument&quot;&amp;gt;
 471     &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;
 472 \usepackage{endnotes}
 473 \let\footnote=\endnote
 474 \def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
 475 \begin{document}
 476     &amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt;
 477   &amp;lt;/xsl:param&amp;gt;
 478 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 479 &lt;/pre&gt;
 480
 481 &lt;p&gt;Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like
 482 this:&lt;/p&gt;
 483
 484 &lt;pre&gt;
 485 dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
 486 &lt;/pre&gt;
 487
 488 &lt;p&gt;The end result can be seen on github, where
 489 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
 490 book project&lt;/a&gt; is located.&lt;/p&gt;
 491 </description>
 492         </item>
 493
 494         <item>
 495                 <title>Proof reading the Norwegian translation of Free Culture by Lessig</title>
 496                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</link>
 497                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</guid>
 498                 <pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 499                 <description>&lt;p&gt;During eastern I had some time to continue working on the Norwegian
 500 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 501 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
 502 At the moment I am proof reading the finished text, looking for typos,
 503 inconsistent wordings and sentences that do not flow as they should.
 504 I&#39;m more than two thirds done with the text, and welcome others to
 505 check the text up to chapter 13.  The current status is available on the
 506 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
 507 project pages.  You can also check out the
 508 &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;,
 509 &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;
 510 and HTML version available in the
 511 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive&quot;&gt;archive
 512 directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 513
 514 &lt;p&gt;Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
 515 you find any.&lt;/p&gt;
 516 </description>
 517         </item>
 518
 519         <item>
 520                 <title>98.6 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
 521                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 522                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 523                 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 524                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This summer I finally had time to continue working on the Norwegian
 525 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 526 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
 527 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with todays copyright
 528 law.  Yesterday, I finally completed translated the book text.  There
 529 are still some foot/end notes left to translate, the colophon page
 530 need to be rewritten, and a few words and phrases still need to be
 531 translated, but the Norwegian text is ready for the first proof
 532 reading. :) More spell checking is needed, and several illustrations
 533 need to be cleaned up.  The work stopped up because I had to give
 534 priority to other projects the last year, and the progress graph of
 535 the translation show this very well:&lt;/p&gt;
 536
 537 &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;
 538
 539 &lt;p&gt;If you want to read the result, check out the
 540 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
 541 project pages and the
 542 &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;,
 543 &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;
 544 and HTML version available in the
 545 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive&quot;&gt;archive
 546 directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 547
 548 &lt;p&gt;Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
 549 you find any.&lt;/p&gt;
 550 </description>
 551         </item>
 552
 553         <item>
 554                 <title>From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</title>
 555                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html</link>
 556                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html</guid>
 557                 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 558                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 559 project&lt;/a&gt; provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
 560 administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
 561 and maintaining a Debian Edu installation.  This text is about how the
 562 text processing of this manual is handled in the project.&lt;/p&gt;
 563
 564 &lt;p&gt;One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
 565 language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
 566 But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
 567 information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
 568 in sync.  And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
 569 documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
 570 contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
 571 edit the documentation using a web browser.  We also want it to be
 572 easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
 573 help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
 574 tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
 575 goals.&lt;/p&gt;
 576
 577 &lt;p&gt;We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
 578 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/&quot;&gt;Debian
 579 wiki&lt;/a&gt;, as several wiki pages written in English.  It consist of one
 580 front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
 581 for each chapter, and finally one &quot;collection page&quot; gluing all the
 582 chapters together into one large web page (aka
 583 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne&quot;&gt;the
 584 AllInOne page&lt;/a&gt;).  The AllInOne page is the one used for further
 585 processing and translations.  Thanks to the fact that the
 586 &lt;a href=&quot;http://moinmo.in/&quot;&gt;MoinMoin&lt;/a&gt; installation on
 587 wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
 588 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;the Docbook format&lt;/a&gt;, we can fetch
 589 the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
 590 page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
 591 manual.  This process also download images and transform image
 592 references to use the locally downloaded images.  The generated
 593 Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
 594 using the &lt;tt&gt;documentation/scripts/get_manual&lt;/tt&gt; program, and the
 595 result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
 596 a handfull of images.  The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
 597 and epub versions of the English manual.  This is the basic step of
 598 our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
 599 epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
 600 are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.&lt;/p&gt;
 601
 602 &lt;p&gt;But English documentation is not enough for us.  We want translated
 603 documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
 604 track the English original.  For this we use the
 605 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html&quot;&gt;poxml&lt;/a&gt; package,
 606 which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
 607 translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
 608 translation tools used by those translating free software.  The pot
 609 file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
 610 files), which the translations update with the native language
 611 translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
 612 original.  The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
 613 and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
 614 create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
 615 debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml).  This translated (or partly
 616 translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
 617 then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
 618 of the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;
 619
 620 &lt;p&gt;The translators use different tools to edit the .po files.  We
 621 recommend using
 622 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/&quot;&gt;lokalize&lt;/a&gt;,
 623 while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
 624 &lt;a href=&quot;http://pootle.translatehouse.org/&quot;&gt;Poodle&lt;/a&gt; or
 625 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.transifex.com/&quot;&gt;Transifex&lt;/a&gt;.  All we care about
 626 is where the .po file end up, in our git repository.  Updated
 627 translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
 628 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc&quot;&gt;bug reports
 629 against the debian-edu-doc package&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 630
 631 &lt;p&gt;One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
 632 they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
 633 formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
 634 this regard).  For this we transform the original PNG images to the
 635 needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
 636 translated images by storing translated versions in
 637 images/$LANGUAGECODE/.  I am a bit unsure about the details here.  The
 638 package maintainers know more.&lt;/p&gt;
 639
 640 &lt;p&gt;If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
 641 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&quot;&gt;the content
 642 of the documentation packages on the web&lt;/a&gt;.  See for example the
 643 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf&quot;&gt;Italian
 644 PDF version&lt;/a&gt; or the
 645 &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html&quot;&gt;German
 646 HTML version&lt;/a&gt;.  We do not yet build the epub version by default,
 647 but perhaps it will be done in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
 648
 649 &lt;p&gt;To learn more, check out
 650 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html&quot;&gt;the
 651 debian-edu-doc package&lt;/a&gt;,
 652 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/&quot;&gt;the
 653 manual on the wiki&lt;/a&gt; and
 654 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations&quot;&gt;the
 655 translation instructions&lt;/a&gt; in the manual.&lt;/p&gt;
 656 </description>
 657         </item>
 658
 659         <item>
 660                 <title>90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
 661                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 662                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 663                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 664                 <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
 665 have worked on a Norwegian
 666 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 667 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
 668 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
 669 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
 670 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
 671 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
 672 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
 673 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
 674 progress of the translation:&lt;/p&gt;
 675
 676 &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;
 677
 678 &lt;p&gt;When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
 679 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
 680 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
 681 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
 682 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
 683 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
 684 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
 685 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
 686 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
 687 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
 688 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
 689
 690 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
 691 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
 692 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
 693 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
 694 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
 695 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
 696 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
 697 project files currently available from
 698 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 699
 700 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 701 the updated
 702 &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;
 703 and
 704 &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;
 705 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 706 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 707 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
 708 </description>
 709         </item>
 710
 711         <item>
 712                 <title>EFN nyutgir novellen Kodémus av Tor Åge Bringsværd</title>
 713                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</link>
 714                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</guid>
 715                 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
 716                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden nevnte jeg at vi jobbet med å typesette en
 717 novelle med &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag ble
 718 utgivelsen annonsert med følgende pressemelding fra Elektronisk
 719 Forpost Norge), som jeg gjengir i sin helhet:&lt;/p&gt;
 720
 721 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 722
 723 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EFN nyutgir Kodémus:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 724
 725 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tor Åge Bringsværd-novelle om IT og overvåkning fra
 726 informasjonsteknologiens spedbarndom får nytt liv&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 727
 728 &lt;p&gt;Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN) er veldig glad for anledningen til
 729 å nyutgi Tor Åge Bringsværds novelle Kodémus i digitalt format for nye
 730 (og gamle) generasjoner. Novellen ble skrevet så tidlig som vinteren
 731 1968, og første gang trykt i novellesamlingen Probok på Gyldendal
 732 samme år.&lt;/p&gt;
 733
 734 &lt;p&gt;Informasjonsteknologi spiller en sentral rolle i Kodémus, og det er
 735 spennende å sammenligne beskrivelsen av IT fra 1968 med dagens IT i
 736 2013. Forskjellene er mange -- men det er jammen likhetene også. Ikke
 737 minst det at idag går jo nesten alle rundt med lillebrødre på seg!&lt;/p&gt;
 738
 739 &lt;p&gt;&quot;Riktignok er det ikke påbudt å ha mobil,&quot; sier Thomas Gramstad,
 740 leder i EFN. &quot;Men vi holder på å lage et samfunn der det blir så
 741 upraktisk eller tungvint å ikke ha det, at man i praksis ikke slipper
 742 unna. Og disse lillebrødrene sladrer hele tiden til staten (og til
 743 mange andre) om hvor vi er, hva vi gjør, hva vi bryr oss om, hva vi
 744 liker...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
 745
 746 &lt;p&gt;Det at Kodémus åpenbart er skrevet i en annen tid med en annen type
 747 IT og likevel virker så relevant idag, er i seg selv et hardtslående
 748 tankekors.&lt;/p&gt;
 749
 750 &lt;p&gt;Tross sitt IT-tema fantes ikke Kodémus i elektronisk form, og
 751 frivillige i EFN har skannet inn, OCR-tolket og korrekturlest
 752 novellen, og deretter kodet den i en rekke digitale formater.&lt;/p&gt;
 753
 754 &lt;p&gt;Forfatteren har gitt tillatelse til publisering av Kodémus under ny
 755 lisens, og novellen utgis av EFN med en Creative Commons (CC)
 756 fribrukslisens (nærmere bestemt lisensen CC-BY-NC-ND). For leserne
 757 eller brukerne innebærer dette at de får en klar og standardisert
 758 beskjed om hvilke rettigheter de har til å dele novellen videre med
 759 andre. For forfatteren innebærer dette økt synlighet og
 760 tilgjengelighet for verket, slik at det ikke blir glemt, da
 761 søkemotorer og nettlesere inneholder egne søkevalg for CC-lisenser, og
 762 mange brukere søker etter verk som de vet de kan dele og bruke på
 763 lovlig vis.&lt;/p&gt;
 764
 765 &lt;p&gt;EFN oppfordrer andre forfattere om å gi ut sine gamle tekster med
 766 en fribrukslisens, slik at tekstene ikke blir glemt og for å stimulere
 767 lovlig deling på nettet. EFN kan være behjelpelig med digitalisering
 768 og utlegging på nett, i den grad det finnes kapasitet blant EFNs
 769 medlemmer til dette. Vi mener at nyutgivelser av tekster under frie
 770 lisenser kan øke interessen rundt forfatterskapet, og vil gjerne bidra
 771 til dette.&lt;/p&gt;
 772
 773 &lt;p&gt;EFN utgir og deler med dette en novelle fra den digitale
 774 informasjonsteknologiens tidligste barndom. En novelle som fortsatt er
 775 full av vitalitet og aktualitet, og som derfor kan bidra til, og gi
 776 ettertanke i dagens debatter om IT, personvern, overvåkning og
 777 individets frihet og integritet.&lt;/p&gt;
 778
 779 &lt;p&gt;Du finner novellen her:
 780 &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://efn.no/kodemus/&quot;&gt;http://efn.no/kodemus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 781
 782 &lt;p&gt;i flere forskjellige formater, for ulike plattformer. Per idag
 783 finnes novellen i disse formatene: EPUB, MOBI, XML, HTML, PDF og
 784 txt. Det kan bli flere formater senere, og evt. frivillige
 785 bidragsytere til dette er velkommen.&lt;/p&gt;
 786
 787 &lt;p&gt;Kontaktperson for denne pressemeldingen,&lt;/p&gt;
 788
 789 &lt;p&gt;Thomas Gramstad
 790 &lt;br&gt;thomas@efn.no
 791 &lt;br&gt;4817 6875&lt;/p&gt;
 792
 793 &lt;hr&gt;
 794
 795 &lt;p&gt;EFN arbeider for dine borgerrettigheter i IT-samfunnet, for
 796 nettverks- og delingskultur, personvern og frihet fra overvåkning,
 797 åpne standarder, brukerstyrt programvare, retten til å kopiere, og
 798 styrking av det digitale sivilsamfunnet m.m.
 799 &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://efn.no/&quot;&gt;www.efn.no&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 800
 801 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 802
 803 &lt;p&gt;Jeg håper flere forfattere ser verdien av å gjøre kulturen
 804 tilgjengelig for flere, og slår følge med Hr. Bringsværd i å gi ut
 805 sine verker med bruksvilkår med færre bruksbegrensinger enn
 806 opphavsretten legger opp til.  Selv om jeg gjerne skulle sett at han
 807 hadde brukt en Creative Commons-lisens som tillot avledede verker og
 808 kommersiell bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
 809 </description>
 810         </item>
 811
 812         <item>
 813                 <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
 814                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</link>
 815                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</guid>
 816                 <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 817                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, during a discussion in
 818 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;EFN&lt;/a&gt; about interesting books to read
 819 about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
 820 the 1968 short story Kodémus by
 821 &lt;a href=&quot;http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/&quot;&gt;Tore Åge Bringsværd&lt;/a&gt;
 822 came up.  The text was only available in old paper books, and thus not
 823 easily available for current and future generations.  Some of the
 824 people participating in the discussion contacted the author, and
 825 reported back 2013-03-19 that the author was OK with releasing the
 826 short story using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
 827 Commons&lt;/a&gt; license.  The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
 828 were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;
 829
 830 &lt;p&gt;As I already had some experience formatting text in my project to
 831 provide a Norwegian version of the Free Culture book by Lawrence
 832 Lessig, I chipped in and set up a
 833 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; processing framework to
 834 generate PDF, HTML and EPUB version of the short story.  The tools to
 835 transform DocBook to different formats are already in my Linux
 836 distribution of choice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;, so
 837 all I had to do was to use the
 838 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
 839 &lt;a href=&quot;http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;
 840 and &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt; tools to do the
 841 conversion.  After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
 842 xsltproc/fop (aka
 843 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt;),
 844 to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
 845 nicer &amp;lt;variablelist&amp;gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
 846 technical detail.&lt;/p&gt;
 847
 848 &lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges, of course.  We want to typeset the
 849 short story to look like the original, and that require fairly good
 850 control over the layout.  The original short story have three
 851 parts/scenes separated by a single horizontally centred star (*), and
 852 the paragraphs do not contain only flowing text, but dialogs and text
 853 that started on a new line in the middle of the paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;
 854
 855 &lt;p&gt;I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
 856 single star in it, ie &amp;lt;para&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/para&amp;gt;, but it made sure a
 857 placeholder indicated where the scene shifted.  This did not look too
 858 good without the centring.  The next approach was to create a new
 859 preprocessor directive &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;, mapping to &quot;&amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;&quot;
 860 for HTML and &quot;&amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;fo:leader
 861 leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;&quot;
 862 for FO/PDF output (did not try to implement this in dblatex, as we had
 863 switched at this time).  The HTML XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 864
 865 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 866 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 867 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 868   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
 869     &amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;
 870   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 871 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 872 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 873
 874 &lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 875
 876 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 877 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 878 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 879   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
 880     &amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;
 881       &amp;lt;fo:leader leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;
 882     &amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;
 883   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 884 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 885 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 886
 887 &lt;p&gt;Finally, I came across the &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt; tag, which seem to be
 888 a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;
 889 with &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/bridgehead&amp;gt;.  It isn&#39;t centred, but we
 890 can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn&#39;t
 891 enough.&lt;/p&gt;
 892
 893 &lt;p&gt;I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
 894 linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
 895 directive &amp;lt;?linebreak?&amp;gt;, mapping to &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; in HTML, and
 896 &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt; in FO/PDF.  I suspect there are better ways to do
 897 this, and welcome ideas and patches on github.  The HTML XSL file now
 898 look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 899
 900 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 901 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 902 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
 903   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
 904     &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;
 905   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 906 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 907 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 908
 909 &lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
 910
 911 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 912 &amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
 913 &amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;
 914   xmlns:fo=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&quot;&amp;gt;
 915   &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
 916     &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt;
 917   &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
 918 &amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
 919 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 920
 921 &lt;p&gt;One unsolved challenge is our wish to expose different ISBN numbers
 922 per publication format, while keeping all of them in some conditional
 923 structure in the DocBook source.  No idea how to do this, so we ended
 924 up listing all the ISBN numbers next to their format in the colophon
 925 page.&lt;/p&gt;
 926
 927 &lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
 928 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sickel/kodemus&quot;&gt;source repository at
 929 github&lt;/a&gt;
 930 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/EFN/kodemus&quot;&gt;future/new/official
 931 repository&lt;/a&gt;).  We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
 932 days.&lt;/p&gt;
 933 </description>
 934         </item>
 935
 936         <item>
 937                 <title>Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</title>
 938                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 939                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 940                 <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 941                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian &lt;a
 942 href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book &lt;a
 943 href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
 944 The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
 945 in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
 946 those that are reluctant do read an English book.
 947
 948 When I started, I
 949 &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
 950 for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
 951 and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
 952 mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
 953 strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
 954 my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
 955 complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:&lt;/p&gt;
 956
 957 &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;
 958
 959 &lt;p&gt;Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
 960 commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
 961 the project files currently available from
 962 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 963
 964 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 965 the updated
 966 &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;
 967 and
 968 &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;
 969 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 970 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 971 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
 972 </description>
 973         </item>
 974
 975         <item>
 976                 <title>Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture</title>
 977                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
 978                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
 979                 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
 980                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian
 981 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
 982 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
 983 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law
 984 I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an
 985 English book.  It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever
 986 expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society.  When the
 987 translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy
 988 to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down
 989 to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law.  This
 990 summer I
 991 &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
 992 for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, and I have been able to secure the
 993 valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.&lt;/p&gt;
 994
 995 &lt;p&gt;Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark.  Then more than 50% of
 996 the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also
 997 titles and index entries are also counted).  All parts from the
 998 beginning up to and including chapter four is translated.  So is
 999 chapters six, seven and the conclusion.  I created a graph to show the
1000 progress:&lt;/p&gt;
1001
1002 &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;
1003
1004 &lt;p&gt;The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index
1005 entries into the docbook.  They were missing with the docbook version
1006 I initially started with.  There are still quite a few index entries
1007 missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done.  I
1008 currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete
1009 english version of the docbook source.&lt;/p&gt;
1010
1011 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
1012 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
1013 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
1014 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
1015 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
1016 around?  I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to
1017 me.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the
1018 project files currently available from &lt;a
1019 href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1020
1021 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
1022 the updated
1023 &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;
1024 and
1025 &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;
1026 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
1027 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
1028 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
1029 </description>
1030         </item>
1031
1032         <item>
1033                 <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
1034                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</link>
1035                 <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</guid>
1036                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1037                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; one can specify
1038 the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
1039 this information to pick the correct translations for &#39;chapter&#39;, &#39;see
1040 also&#39;, &#39;index&#39; etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
1041 this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
1042 with &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;de&quot;&amp;gt;, and the document will show up with the
1043 correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
1044 case for the language
1045 &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
1046 am working with at the moment&lt;/a&gt;, Norwegian Bokmål.&lt;/p&gt;
1047
1048 &lt;p&gt;For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
1049 because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
1050 all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
1051 dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
1052 of them do not handle it at all.&lt;/p&gt;
1053
1054 &lt;p&gt;A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
1055 this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
1056 variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
1057 two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
1058 is &#39;no&#39;, Norwegian Nynorsk is &#39;nn&#39; and Norwegian Bokmål is &#39;nb&#39;.
1059 Historically the &#39;no&#39; language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
1060 many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
1061 is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
1062 In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure &#39;no&#39; was an
1063 alias for &#39;nb&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
1064
1065 &lt;p&gt;Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
1066 understand &#39;nn&#39;.  There are translations for &#39;no&#39;, but not &#39;nb&#39; (BTS
1067 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/684391&quot;&gt;#684391&lt;/a&gt;), but due to a bug
1068 (BTS &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;#682936&lt;/a&gt;) the &#39;no&#39;
1069 language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
1070 recognise &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The xmlto tool only recognise
1071 &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The end result that there is no language
1072 code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
1073 at the same time. :(&lt;/p&gt;
1074
1075 &lt;p&gt;The correct solution is to use &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;nb&quot;&amp;gt;, but it will
1076 take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
1077 processors. :(&lt;/p&gt;
1078
1079 &lt;p&gt;Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/&lt;/p&gt;
1080 </description>
1081         </item>
1082
1083         <item>
1084                 <title>Best way to create a docbook book?</title>
1085                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best_way_to_create_a_docbook_book_.html</link>
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1087                 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1088                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I tried to send this text to the
1089 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/&quot;&gt;docbook-apps
1090 mailing list at lists.oasis-open.org&lt;/a&gt;, but it only accept messages
1091 from subscribers and rejected my post, and I completely lack the
1092 bandwidth required to subscribe to another mailing list, so instead I
1093 try to post my message here and hope my blog readers can help me
1094 out.&lt;/p&gt;
1095
1096 &lt;p&gt;I am quite new to docbook processing, and am climbing a steep
1097 learning curve at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
1098
1099 &lt;p&gt;To give you some background, I am working on a Norwegian
1100 translation of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, and I use
1101 docbook to handle the process.  The files to build the book are
1102 available from
1103 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
1104 The book got around 400 pages with parts, images, footnotes, tables,
1105 index entries etc, which has proven to be a challenge for the free
1106 software docbook processors.  My build platform is Debian GNU/Linux
1107 Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
1108
1109 &lt;p&gt;I want to build PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book, and have
1110 tried different tool chains to do the conversion from docbook to these
1111 formats.  I am currently focusing on the PDF version, and have a few
1112 problems.&lt;/p&gt;
1113
1114 &lt;ul&gt;
1115
1116 &lt;li&gt;Using dblatex, the &amp;lt;part&amp;gt; handling is not the way I want to,
1117    as &amp;lt;/part&amp;gt; do not really end the &amp;lt;part&amp;gt;. (See
1118    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683166&quot;&gt;BTS report #683166&lt;/a&gt;), the
1119    xetex backend (needed to process UTF-8) give incorrect hyphens in
1120    index references spanning several pages (See
1121    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682901&quot;&gt;BTS report #682901&lt;/a&gt;), and
1122    I am unable to get the norwegian template texts (See
1123    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;BTS report #682936&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
1124
1125 &lt;li&gt;Using straight xmlto fail with some latex error (See
1126    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683163&quot;&gt;BTS report
1127    #683163&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;
1128
1129 &lt;li&gt;Using xmlto with the fop backend fail to handle images (do not
1130    show up in the PDF), fail to handle a long footnote (overlap
1131    footnote and text body, see
1132    &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/683197&quot;&gt;BTS report #683197&lt;/a&gt;), and
1133    fail to create a correct index (some lack page ref, and the page
1134    refs listed are not right).&lt;/li&gt;
1135
1136 &lt;li&gt;Using xmlto with the dblatex backend behave like dblatex.&lt;/li&gt;
1137
1138 &lt;li&gt;Using docbook-xls with xsltproc + fop have the same footnote and
1139    index problems the xmlto + fop processing.&lt;/li&gt;
1140
1141 &lt;/ul&gt;
1142
1143 &lt;p&gt;So I wonder, what would be the best way to create the PDF version
1144 of this book?  Are some of the bugs found above solved in new or
1145 experimental versions of some docbook tool chain?&lt;/p&gt;
1146
1147 &lt;p&gt;What about HTML and EPUB versions?&lt;/p&gt;
1148 </description>
1149         </item>
1150
1151         <item>
1152                 <title>Free Culture in Norwegian - 5 chapters done, 74 percent left to do</title>
1153                 <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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1155                 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1156                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I reported earlier that I am working on
1157 &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
1158 norwegian version&lt;/a&gt; of the book
1159 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
1160 Progress is good, and yesterday I got a major contribution from Anders
1161 Hagen Jarmund completing chapter six.  The source files as well as a
1162 PDF and EPUB version of this book are available from
1163 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1164
1165 &lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that the draft for the first two chapters
1166 (preface, introduction) is complete, and three other chapters are also
1167 completely translated.  This completes 26 percent of the number of
1168 strings (equivalent to paragraphs) in the book, and there is thus 74
1169 percent left to translate.  A graph of the progress is present at the
1170 bottom of the github project page.  There is still room for more
1171 contributors.  Get in touch or send github pull requests with fixes if
1172 you got time and are willing to help make this book make it to
1173 print. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1174
1175 &lt;p&gt;The book translation framework could also be a good basis for other
1176 translations, if you want the book to be available in your
1177 language.&lt;/p&gt;
1178 </description>
1179         </item>
1180
1181         <item>
1182                 <title>Call for help from docbook expert to tag Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</title>
1183                 <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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1185                 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
1186                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am currently working on a
1187 &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
1188 to translate&lt;/a&gt; the book
1189 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig
1190 to Norwegian.  And the source we base our translation on is the
1191 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version, to
1192 allow us to use po4a and .po files to handle the translation, and for
1193 this to work well the docbook source document need to be properly
1194 tagged.  The source files of this project is available from
1195 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
1196
1197 &lt;p&gt;The problem is that the docbook source have flaws, and we have
1198 no-one involved in the project that is a docbook expert.  Is there a
1199 docbook expert somewhere that is interested in helping us create a
1200 well tagged docbook version of the book, and adjust our build process
1201 for the PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book?  This will provide a
1202 well tagged English version (our source document), and make it a lot
1203 easier for us to create a good Norwegian version.  If you can and want
1204 to help, please get in touch with me or fork the github project and
1205 send pull requests with fixes. :)&lt;/p&gt;
1206 </description>
1207         </item>
1208
1209         <item>
1210                 <title>Dugnad for å sende norsk versjon av Free Culture til stortingets representanter!</title>
1211                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html</link>
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1213                 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
1214                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Da opphavsrettsloven ble revidert i forrige runde rundt 2005, var
1215 det skummelt å se hvor lite stortingsrepresentantene forsto hvordan
1216 Internet påvirket folks forhold til kulturuttrykk, og min venn Vidar
1217 og jeg spekulert på at det hadde kanskje vært fornuftig om samtlige
1218 representanter fikk en norsk utgave av boken
1219 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; av Lawrence Lessig
1220 som forklarte litt om problemstillingene.  Vi endte opp med å
1221 prioritere utvikling i
1222 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet i
1223 stedet, så den oversatte boken så aldri dagens lys.  Men i forrige uke
1224 ble jeg inspirert til å ta opp tråden og se om det er mulig å få til
1225 bokprosjektet denne gang, da det er tydelig at kulturdepartementet i
1226 sitt nye forsøk på å gjøre opphavsrettsloven enda mer ubalansert til
1227 fordel for forlag og store mediehus fortsatt trenger en annen vinkling
1228 i debatten.&lt;/p&gt;
1229
1230 &lt;p&gt;Planen min er å oversette boka på dugnad, sette den opp for
1231 trykking med en av de mange
1232 &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trykk_på_forespørsel&quot;&gt;trykk på
1233 forespørsel&lt;/a&gt;-tjenestene, skaffe sponsor til å finansiere trykking
1234 til stortingsrepresentantene og alle som har bidratt med
1235 oversettelser.  Kanskje vi også kan få en avtale med et forlag om
1236 publisering når boka er ferdig?  Kommentarene til
1237 &lt;a href=&quot;http://newth.net/eirik/2011/04/01/e-selvpublisering/&quot;&gt;Eirik
1238 Newth&lt;/a&gt; og
1239 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.espen.com/norskblogg/archives/2008/09/erfaringer_med_publishing_on_demand.html&quot;&gt;Espen
1240 Andersen&lt;/a&gt; om erfaringene med selvpublisering og trykk på
1241 forespørsel er interessante og ikke avskrekkende, og jeg mistenker at
1242 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu&lt;/a&gt; er en grei leverandør av
1243 trykketjenester til prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
1244
1245 &lt;p&gt;Jeg har satt opp
1246 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;et
1247 Github-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt; for a lage boken, basert på Docbook-utgaven jeg
1248 fant fra Hans Schou.  Skolelinux har hatt byggesystem for å lage
1249 oversatt HTML og PDF-utgave av Docbook-bøker i en årrekke, så jeg har
1250 kopiert og utvidet dette oppsettet.  Originalteksten er i Docbook, og
1251 oversettelsen gjøres i .po-filer med hjelp av vanlige
1252 oversetterverktøy brukt i fri programvareverden.  Dernest tar
1253 byggesystemet over og lager PDF og EPUB-utgave av den oversatte
1254 teksten.  Resultatet kan ses i Github-prosjektet.  For å komme raskt
1255 igang har jeg brukt maskinoversettelse av alle tekstbitene fra engelsk
1256 til norsk, noe som grovoversatte ca. 1300 av de ca. 1700 tekstbitene
1257 boken består av.  Jeg håper nå at flere kan bidra med å få
1258 oversettelsen på plass, slik at teksten kan være klar i løpet av
1259 høsten.  Når alt er oversatt må teksten gjennomgås for feil og
1260 konsistent språk.  Totalt er det nok mange timer som trengs for å
1261 gjennomføre oversettelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
1262
1263 &lt;p&gt;Økonomien i dette er ikke avskrekkende.  169
1264 stortingsrepresentanter og nesten like mange varamedlemmer bør få
1265 bøker, og estimert produduksjonskostnad for hver bok er rundt 6 EURO i
1266 følge et raskt estimat fra Lulu.  Jeg vet ennå ikke hvor mange sider
1267 det blir i størrelsen 5,5&quot; x 8.5&quot; (det er ca. 140 sider i A4-format),
1268 så jeg gjettet på 400 sider.  Jeg tror originalutgaven har nesten 400
1269 sider.  For 169*2 eksemplarer snakker vi om en trykkekostnad på
1270 ca. 2000 EURO, dvs. ca 15 000 NOK.  Det burde være mulig å finne en
1271 sponsor for å dekke en slik sum.  I tillegg kommer distribusjon og
1272 porto, som antagelig kommer på like mye.&lt;/p&gt;
1273
1274 &lt;p&gt;Kan du bidra med oversettelse og docbook-typesetting?  Ta kontakt
1275 og send patcher i github.  Jeg legger gjerne inn folk i prosjektet
1276 slik at du kan oppdatere direkte.&lt;/p&gt;
1277 </description>
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