[Oberon] Updating Project Oberon PDF Docs (was: ALU 2015 and 2018)

[Guido Bartolucci]

It's nice to know that there are others out there who might appreciate my
niche projects! :-) The knowledge that there's at least one other person on
earth who will get utility out of this project has inspired me to make more
progress today.

Here's an update: https://github.com/guidoism/tex-oberon

I've translated up to page 47 of the 2013 edition, first pdf. That's a
little under half of that first doc. Figures are all still missing. My plan
is to get the text correct, then add the figures as pictures taken from the
pdf, then clean up some of the ugly typesetting problems, then maybe get
around to redoing the figures with MetaPost. I'd love help, especially with
the figures, if there are others out there who like this sort of work.






On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 1:44 PM Nemo Nusquam <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings, Guido.
>
> On 2022-05-20 12:56, Guido Bartolucci wrote:
> > I've been intending on making a TeX translation of the Project Oberon
> > PDFs for a while. I haven't prioritized it since it's just for my own
> > personal project but if others are interested in it I can make
> > finishing it more of a priority.
>
> A LaTeX version would be welcome, thank you.  (That way, I can increase
> the font size very easily.)
>
> N.
>
> >
> > As for the copyright. I am not a lawyer, but it says the following,
> > which looks a lot like a BSD or MIT style license. But I'd love a
> > lawyer to confirm for us.
> >
> > Project Oberon, Revised Edition 2013
> >
> > Book copyright (C)2013 Niklaus Wirth and Juerg Gutknecht;
> > software copyright (C)2013 Niklaus Wirth (NW), Juerg Gutknecht (JG), Paul
> > Reed (PR/PDR).
> >
> > Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software and its
> > accompanying documentation (the "Software") for any purpose with or
> > without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice
> > and this permission notice appear in all copies.
> >
> > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES
> > WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
> > MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
> > AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR
> > CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, WHETHER IN
> > AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
> > CONNECTION WITH THE DEALINGS IN OR USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.
> >
> > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:19 AM Skulski, Wojciech
> > <skulski at pas.rochester.edu <mailto:skulski at pas.rochester.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Chris:
> >
> >     > We combined all three PDF files into one for convenience
> >     > when we sent it out to get a printed copy, and added the bookmarks
> >     > to make it easier to navigate. AFAIR, we didn't make any changes
> >     to the text.
> >
> >     This is great. Thank you for the hint. How about the copyright? I
> >     mean, imagine we modify portions of the original project and we
> >     want to update the document. It makes sense to start from the
> >     original because it was a significant piece of work. It will make
> >     sense to keep part of the document intact for those parts which
> >     were not changed (yet).  After a while it will become a patchwork
> >     of the original and the modified text. How is this going to work?
> >     I will not feel comfortable modifying the text as I see fit, while
> >     an unmodified text will become disconnected with the actual project.
> >
> >     Wojtek
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