README.md

   1 Norwegian translation of Free Culture
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   3
   4 The original book version is available from http://free-culture.cc/ .
   5
   6 See
   7 http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html
   8 for a project description.
   9
  10 Norwegian translation of the book Free Culture by Lessig.  Based on
  11 the <a href="http://www.sslug.dk/~chlor/lessig/">Docbook version by
  12 Hans Schou</a>.  Other versions of the book can be found from the
  13 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/remixes/">books remixes list</a>.
  14
  15 The images were found in the HTML version available from
  16 <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Lessig/index.html">Elegant
  17 Ebooks</a>.
  18
  19 The source of this project is available from the
  20 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">free-culture-lessig
  21 github repository</a>.
  22
  23
  24 Text flow
  25 ---------
  26
  27 The original source for the book is freeculture.xml, a Docbook
  28 formattet file.  This file is transformed to the freeculture.pot,
  29 which is the base file for translators.  It was copied to
  30 freeculture.nb.po as the starting point of the Norwegian Bokmål
  31 translation, and the text blocks are translated in this file.
  32
  33 Only the files freeculture.xml and freeculture.nb.po should be
  34 manually edited!
  35
  36 The freeculture.xml file is automatically combined with the
  37 freeculture.nb.po file to create a new generated file
  38 freeculture.nb.xml representing the Norwegian Bokmål Docbook version.
  39 This file is in turn used to generate the HTML, PDF and EPUB version
  40 of the book.
  41
  42 Requirements
  43 ------------
  44
  45 To build the PDF and EPUB version of this book, the following Debian
  46 packages are needed:
  47
  48   make
  49   po4a
  50   dblatex (>= 0.3.4-2 in debian, for nb support)
  51   dbtoepub
  52   libxml2-utils
  53   gnuplot
  54   xmlto
  55
  56 When the build requirements are in place, the PDF and EPUB version of
  57 the book can be build by running 'make' on the command line.
  58
  59 Changes done to the original
  60 ----------------------------
  61
  62 Changed typo in introduction (page 11 in original):
  63
  64   Is it not about the «centrality of technology» to ordinary life.
  65
  66 to:
  67
  68   It is not about the «centrality of technology» to ordinary life.
  69
  70 Changed typo in quote from Elizabeth Daly (page 40 in original),
  71 removed trailing quite character:
  72
  73   power with this language."
  74
  75 to:
  76
  77   power with this language.
  78
  79 Rewrote colophon page and dropped irrelevant pages between the content
  80 table and the preface.
  81
  82
  83 Translation status
  84 ------------------
  85
  86 <img src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
  87
  88 Todo
  89 ----
  90
  91  * Convert remaining figures to SVG.
  92  * Figure out a way to translate SVGs, or pick the correct of the
  93    original and translated SVGs for the English and Norwegian version.
  94  * Complete translation of the foot notes.
  95  * Figure out translation of the words/phrases marked with a star (*)
  96  * Decide which docbook to PDF processor to use (dblatex,
  97    docbook-xsl/fop or xmlto).
  98  * Decide how to handle chapter numbering.
  99  * Decide the paper size to use.
 100  * Figure out where to print the book.
 101  * Get ISBN numbers (from Thomas Gramstad).
 102  * Decide what content to include in the colophon page.
 103  * Complete the spell checking of the content (using the txt version
 104    is easiest).
 105  * Complete the proof reading.
 106  * Publish first edition.
 107  * (Add missing index entries.  Nice to have, not vital.  See
 108    scripts/idxcompare for helper script.)