# Translation Howto

The full source of the book will be available from
<https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python>.

You are encouraged to [fork the
repository](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo).

You need to know how to use [Git](http://www.git-scm.com) to be able
to fetch the repository to your computer.

Start editing the `.pd` files to your local language. Please go
through the [Pandoc
README](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown)
to understand the formatting of the text.

Then follow the instructions in the
[README](http://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python#README) to install
the software required to be able to convert the raw source files into
PDFs, etc.