X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/267068b6f48eb3e0efbca2904b7bb2f282c59f9e..b914bcacd5874406d01a2321db1a4e1f6c92b7ee:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index edfddc71cd..696227ac31 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,66 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + "Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html + Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200 + <p><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">Click +here to buy the book</a>.</p> + +<p>In 2004, as the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons +movement</a> gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the +book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free +Culture</a> to explain the problems with increasing copyright +regulation and suggest some solutions. I read the book back then and +was moved very by it. Reading the book inspired me and changed the +way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people +would read it too.</p> + +<p>Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to +Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family +that prefer to read books in Norwegian. I translated the book using +docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a +new edition of the English original. I've been in touch with the +author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also +published an English version. So I decided to do so. Today, I made +this edition +<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available +for sale on Lulu.com</a>, for those interested in a paper book. This +is the cover: + +<p align="center"><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png"/></p> + +<p>The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a +few days. I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or +months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to +join the translation project. So far there is only one active +person, but the French book is almost completely translated but +need some proof reading.</p> + +<p>The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my +github project page</a>. Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some +formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool +dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues +<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a> +and +<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>), +but I have not taken the time to investigate. I recommend the PDF and +ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I +have available.</p> + +<p>After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able +to secure some sponsoring from +<a href="http://www.nuugfoundation.no/">the NUUG Foundation</a> to +print the book. This is the reason their logo is located on the back +cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to +give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian +Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.</p> + + + EU-domstolen konkluderer motsatt av Skatteetaten når det gjelder Bitcoin http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html @@ -465,63 +525,5 @@ result in a few months.</p> - - Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html - Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200 - <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> - - -