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Re: Makefile macros for converting between text formats
by LM 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Thanks to Laura for mentioning various interesting tools. > Anyone know of syntax suggestions for CLI (command line interpreters) > for .groff .html .pdf to [various] .epub ? My notes on creating pdf from html via the command line: https://www.distasis.com/cpp/books.htm I also have some information on this page about converting PDF or HTML that's been converted to PDF to a series of graphics files with imagemagick: https://www.distasis.com/recipes/portp.htm Some older hand held devices could handle graphics but not PDF formats, so I converted stories to multiple graphics files to view and read them on the device. I have some tips for using SciTE: https://www.distasis.com/cpp/scitetip.htm It's a cross-platform programming editor. It's a GUI not a command line or console tool, but it's highly customizable. So, I use a lot of command line utilities in conjunction with it and it will shell out and execute them. The information may give you some useful ideas for command line tools that work with documents. I haven't needed to use groff for anything. I use this program to view man pages. https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/blob/1b6110b73fbb123021a5a29b05d8fa9caef3323… This has some useful utilities including one to convert BSD style man pages to the more standard, older format: https://mandoc.bsd.lv/ There's a Windows port of an older version of the program for people who need Windows support at work or elsewhere: https://embedeo.org/ws/doc/man_windows/ mupdf has command line tools for pdf and ebook formats. I haven't really done much with them, but that may be your best bet on where to start for epub and pdf utilities. Some ultra-lightweight command line pdf tools: pdftxt - https://litcave.rudi.ir/ https://github.com/pts/pdfconcat Here's my list of PDF and Postscript utilities: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/3702.html They're not all command line but many of them are. I have created an ebook from the command line. I did it a while ago and I never had a chance to document the steps. It involved creating some XML files to use with HTML pages and then using zip to package them. There was a specific argument I had to use with zip to get it into the proper format for an epub archive. I'd have to look at my notes. It's been too long since I was working on it. Creating an ebook from the command line once you have the HTML pages and the needed XML files can be done though and it's not a difficult process. I typically create the HTML and XML files directly in a programming editor by hand. > I would add rules to my Makefile macros to convert between various formats: > http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/share/mk/berklix2… Interesting. Look forward to reading through it in more detail. By the way, this is a great topic for a discussion. I love comparing notes on the wonderful FLOSS utilities that are out there. > I made some notes on .epub a while back, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/epub/ > but so far only noticed manual driven GUI (graphical user interface tools), > not seen any CLI to .epub yet. I thought I made a list of command line and conversion tools, but I can't find it. I do mention command line tools including conversion tools on my Converting to Open Source web page, but they're mixed in with GUI tools. I remember looking for command line tools for epub several years ago. As you mentioned, most are GUI based. I found one command line epub validator program. It was licensed as Open Source but the group working on it weren't very into the whole Free Software philosophy. I probably still have the code someplace, but it's not really that useful. I could keep going about interesting FLOSS command line utilities and conversion programs, so I'll just stop now. If you ever want to discuss it further or want more ideas for interesting command line programs, feel free to email me. Best wishes. Laura

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Makefile macros for converting between text formats
by Julian H. Stacey 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Hi all, Thanks to Laura for mentioning various interesting tools. Anyone know of syntax suggestions for CLI (command line interpreters) for .groff .html .pdf to [various] .epub ? I would add rules to my Makefile macros to convert between various formats: http://www.berklix.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/share/mk/berklix2… I made some notes on .epub a while back, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/epub/ but so far only noticed manual driven GUI (grapical user interface tools), not seen any CLI to .epub yet. Cheers, -- Julian Stacey. Gmail & Googlemail Fail http://berklix.org/jhs/mail/#bad Brits abroad reclaim your http://StolenVotes.UK www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Arm Ukraine. Contraception to reduce global warming & resource wars.

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Happy Document Freedom Day
by LM 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hope you have a productive and fruitful Document Freedom Day, today, March 27th, 2024. How are you celebrating Document Freedom Day? Here are some ideas on ways to get involved. Please share some of your own. 1, Check the Document Freedom Day web site for events in your area: https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd 2, Use a word processor or office application that emphasizes Open Document formats and Free Software. Some examples: a. Libreoffice (ODT format) b. Calligra c. Lyx (LaTex) d. Scribus ( http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Scribus ) e. Abiword f. Focuswriter (ODT format) g. FlWriter ( https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Home/ ) h. Sigil (EPUB format) i. Calibre (EPUB format) 3. Take a look at some of the Open Document platforms and Open Education Resources available: a. Open science and education platforms - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/29187.html b. OER - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/14440.html 4. Check out and make use of some of the utilities and libraries that support Open Document formats: a. CSV - https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/28870.html b. ical - https://github.com/libical/libical c. ical - https://github.com/stephaneagg/iCalendar-ics-filter d. tinyxml2 - https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 e. XMLStarlet - https://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ 5. Check out plain text options such as: a. https://plaintextaccounting.org/ b. https://furius.ca/beancount/ c. https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt d. https://plaintextproject.online/articles/2021/07/07/todo.html e. https://github.com/mattheyan/time.txt f. https://alistapart.com/article/boom/ g. https://orgmode.org/ h. https://plaintext-productivity.net/ i. https://plaintextworld.com/ k. https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/ l. https://zapier.com/blog/plain-text-files-for-productivity/ m. https://journaltxt.github.io/ n. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ o. https://johnhenrymuller.com/today 6. Let others know about the Free, Libre, Open Source Software you use that supports Open Document formats. Help out by advocating and informing people you know of the importance of using accessible formats and software with source code you can see. If you have a web site, social media account or some friends in need of useful software, please spread the word about Document Freedom Day, Open and accessible formats and the wonderful FLOSS tools that work with them. Enjoy exploring some of the wonderful Free and Open Document formats out there and the FLOSS applications that work well with them. Have a great Document Freedom Day. Sincerely, Laura

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Document Freedom Day events
by LM 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

If you're involved with a Document Freedom Day event, please register it at the DFF web site: https://digitalfreedoms.org/ There's more information on Document Freedom day available here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/dfd Also, please let us know about your Document Freedom Day events on this mailing list.

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Document Freedom Day
by LM 02 Mar '24

02 Mar '24

Twenty-five days and counting down to Document Freedom Day on March 27, 2024. Want to know how you can get involved? Help organize a local or virtual event on topics related to the theme of Document Freedom. Invite people to attend. You can post about it here and on other social media platforms. Check out our list of Free Social Media platforms if you need a few ideas for reaching out to people: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDMarketingSites Want to attend a Document Freedom Day event? A new web site and event map are coming soon. In the meantime, you can ask on this list if anyone's running an event in your area or hosting a virtual event.

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Re: Software Freedom Day 2023
by Frederic Muller - DFF 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

Dear all, It seems my message didn't go out very well. So I am resending it. Mailing lists have moved to mailman3.com domain and is now: sfd-discuss(a)mailman3.com The current board is also resigning. I'll stay around to help out and ensure SFD runs again this year. If anyone wants to take over please let us know. Thank you. Fred On 05/05/2023 14:16, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote: > Hello, > > We're planning for Software Freedom Day 2023 in Hackerspace Brussels > (hey... it's our 20th edition, we should celebrate!) We picked the topic > "Freedom in education" > > Is anyone else doing SFD this year? I haven't seen a lot of activity on > the mailinglist. Maybe we could meet in a Matrix channel? I created > #SoftwareFreedomDay:matrix.org where we could coordinate and exchange > ideas) > > Grtz, > Jurgen >

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Document Freedom Day 2024 - Save The Date!
by Marcos Marado 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hello! Time flies, and we're well into 2024 by now, time to start planning the events of the year! As you may know, "Document Freedom Day" is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday of March each year, and in 2024 it will be no different: Save the date, 27 March 2024! Document Freedom Day is an annual event to "celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards". It has been celebrated since 2008, and, like with Software Freedom Day, we are looking forward to learning about your teams and planned events and filling up the map! We are still finalizing a new website where each of those events will be listed, but we hope you can start planning how you wish to celebrate the date in the meantime! In Freedom, -- Marcos Marado, Digital Freedom Foundation DFF: https://www.digitalfreedomfoundation.org DFD: https://documentfreedom.org

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FOSDEM 2024: Call for Participation - Translations Devroom 2024
by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

Hi all, Web version available here: https://gitlab.com/translations-devroom/cfp # FOSDEM 2024 In Person -- Translations DevRoom Call for Participation! FOSDEM 2024 [1] will take place on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th February 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. ## Key dates / New updates * Conference dates: 3-4 February, 2024 In person. * Translations DevRoom [2] date: Sunday 4th February (half a day in the morning). * Submission deadline: Sunday 10th December. * Announcement of selected talks: Friday 15th December. * You must be available in person to present your talk. * Talk submissions should be 30 mins and this should include Q&A time. ## TALK TOPICS For the second year in a row, FOSDEM will hold a devroom on all things related to translating FLOSS projects. * Recruiting new people to translate your project. * How it works in your project to translate softwares, websites, packages, manuals, tools, and so on. * Which tools are used by translators. * Exchange experiences between FLOSS projects. * Rewarding volunteer contributors and keeping volunteers motivated. * Showing which languages your project has been translated to. Again, these are just suggestions. We welcome proposals on any aspect of translations! ## HOW TO SUBMIT A TALK * Visit the FOSDEM 2024 pretalx [3] website. This has replaced Pentabarf! * Follow the instructions to create an account. * Once logged in, select “submit a CFP”. * Your submission must include the following information: - Proposal title - Track - Select **Translations** from the drop down list - Abstract - Description - Add any other details as needed to the Submission notes. - Additional speaker - _Click Continue or you can save and come back to it_ - About your proposal: Which open source license do you use? - FOSDEM is an open-source software conference, please specify which OSI approved license [4] your proposal uses. - Extra review material, only shown to reviewers (not published when scheduled) - Extra Contact details (optional) - _Click Continue or you can save and come back to it_ - Finally tell us your name - Biography - Availability If you need to get in touch with the organiser of the Translations DevRoom, email us at <translations-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org> FOSDEM code of conduct [5]. Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana - Translations DevRoom Organiser [1] https://fosdem.org/2024 [2] https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/translations [3] https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp [4] https://opensource.org/licenses [5] https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Belo Horizonte - Brasil Debian Developer Site: http://phls.com.br GPG ID: 0443C450

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Software Freedom Day - call for volunteers
by Jurgen Gaeremyn 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

Hello Friends, Software Freedom Day was a great event this year. We landed with 49 events on the map (and 18 more that were on the wiki but didn’t make it to the map)! In 2022 we had 33 events. For the first time since long, we had a growth again. As you all know, in July a new board started at the Digital Freedom Foundation. Fred and Pockey did a huge job keeping all existing systems updated and secure and responding to every single request that was sent towards the foundation. We’re currently still handing over the last technical aspects. The new board has found a shelter inside the Earth Cause Charity (earthcause.org <http://earthcause.org>), which gives us some legal foundation. We started the board with a team of 5 people: Laura Michaels (USA), Ruwan Ranganath (Germany), Mostafa Ahangarha (Iran), Marcos Marado (Portugal), Jan Husar (Slowakia) and myself, Jurgen Gaeremyn (Belgium). We also had a lot of great help from Roadarchie, a freelance graphics artist who is dedicating a lot of his time and skills to the project. None of us knew each other prior to joining the board but we all have a firm conviction that our digital freedoms (Software Freedom, Hardware Freedom, Document Freedom, …) need to be celebrated worldwide and that today this is more important than ever. The current websites were built in 2004 and gradually updated and upgraded. The workflow also dates from then - with a Joomla site as the public window to the event, including the world map, and a wiki as main documentation and event platform, with some custom integrations to merge the Joomla sites with Wiki pages. Entering an event was pretty complex and the wiki was the only part that couldn’t get nicely updated. Currently we’re working on building a new platform, ready for the next decade of celebrating digital freedoms. This is a big task, and there’s only so much a pair of hands can do. That’s why we need your help to get things going. These are things you can do: 1. *Beta testers* for a new and unified events platform. Are you planning to organize Hardware Freedom Day or Document Freedom Day? Or just an early bird who did Software Freedom Day? We’re looking for a group of people who can testdrive the new platform while the layout isn’t all there yet. 2. Volunteers to *transfer and update documentation* from the SFD wiki to the new website. This is basically copy/pasting and slight editing. No technical skills required. 3. *Translators* who are interested in setting up the website main content (menu items, main pages) to show up well in your native language. 4. Looking for a *frontend-developer* with an understanding of Joomla to work together with RoadArchie and the board to help create a nice template for the site 5. Help organize *Hardware Freedom Day 2024* in your area: If we want this event to grow, we’ll need events going on all over the world. 6. Help organize *Document Freedom Day 2024* in your area: If we want this event to grow, we’ll need events going on all over the world. If you feel like helping or have more questions, feel free to reply on the list or join us on the matrix channel <https://matrix.to/#/#digitalfreedoms:matrix.org>. The board and a bunch of active members are always lurking on this channel… Happy Freedoms! And hopefully we meet on Hardware Freedom Day, Document Freedom Day... or upcoming Software Freedom Day! Jurgen

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Thank you
by LM 01 Oct '23

01 Oct '23

Thanks to all who participated in Software Freedom Day this year. We appreciate your efforts no matter how big or small. We still have a few more groups participating over this weekend and scheduled for Sunday. Overall, I think we all were very successful in bringing together a global celebration just in the nick of time to commemorate the 20th year of Software Freedom Day. Don't you love it when a plan comes together? If you have a 30 second or less video clip about Software Freedom Day or from your event or want to create a short video, please send it to us. We'll put the clips together for an official SFD 2023 video. You can send a link to your video via the SFD discussion mailing list or via Mastodon (@dff@fosstodon.org) or upload it to: https://cloud.hsbxl.be/index.php/s/sTrSS7kqaYtKqeR If you have videos of talks or other SFD related multimedia you've created with CC licensing, we started a wiki page to share them: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDtalks Feel free to add your own links there or send them to us as well. Thanks again to everyone. You've all done a wonderful job.

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