MEU Strasbourg 2015 Documents

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Best-practice (paper-free) reading of EU regulations.
Best-practice (paper-free) reading of EU regulations.
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Dear participants of the Model European Union simulation 2015,

We have been asked to read quite a lot of papers. Instead of printing them out as you find them on the server. I generated some derivates that you hopefully find usefull.

Data Protection Regulation

Source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52012PC0011
All files: http://people.physik.hu-berlin.de/~rriemann/meu/Data-Protection-Regulation/

In English:

In German:

Single Resolution Mechanism

Source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52013PC0520
All files: http://people.physik.hu-berlin.de/~rriemann/meu/Single-Resolution-Mechanism/

In English:

In German:

Single Supervisory Mechanism

Source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1428583392976&uri=CELEX:52012PC0511
All files: http://people.physik.hu-berlin.de/~rriemann/meu/Single-Supervisory-Regulation/

In English:

In German:

How it is done

Save the following ruby script in an executable file called formatter.rb.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

if ARGV.first == "--help" or ARGV.size == 0
  puts <<-EOF
usage: formatter.rb SOURCE_FILE

Creates ebooks in various formats and if there is a pdf with same name in
same folder, it creates a booklet ready for duplex printing (long-edge).

Source file has to be supported by libreoffice. Requires libreoffice (soffice),
pdfjam (pdfbook), and calibre (ebook-convert)
Copyright 2014 Robert Riemann - licensed under GPL v2 or higher.
  EOF
  exit
end

source = File.expand_path ARGV.first
abort("ERROR: File #{source} doesn't exist.") unless File.exists? source

basename = File.basename source, '.*'

puts "source #{source}"

# prepare for input filter of ebook-convert
%x[soffice --headless --convert-to docx #{source}]

docxfile = basename + '.docx'

# convert to ebook
%x[ebook-convert #{docxfile} #{basename}.mobi] # kindle old
%x[ebook-convert #{docxfile} #{basename}.azw3] # kindle new
%x[ebook-convert #{docxfile} #{basename}.epub] # default, legacy

# is there a pdf ?
pdffile = "#{File.dirname(source)}/#{basename}.pdf"
puts "pdf #{pdffile}"
if File.exists? pdffile
  %x[pdfbook --booklet false --signature '32' --suffix 'booklet' #{pdffile}]
end

Download formatter.rb