# Translation Howto

The full source of the book is available from the Git repository <https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python>.

Please [fork the repository](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo).

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

Start editing the `.pd` files to your local language. Please read 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.