Tooling to translate a book.

To translate a French tabletop rpg, made by Fabien Hildwein, called Sphynx, I am looking for a nice workflow and tools. I want to try to use only Open Source software. Lets see what I need.

Mission

The 1100+ words book a .docx file. I guess written with Microsoft Word. The author also share with us an export of the book in .PDF. We are three persons working together: two translators and the original author. We are going to convert the document to text. Then, host it. Finally, we will be able to start translating.

Toolbox

• Pandoc [GPL] for converting
• Visual Studio Code [MIT] for writing
• Git [GPL] for versioning
• GitLab [MIT] for hosting
• GitBook [Apache] for the architecture

Roadmap

• Create project on GitLab
• Host GitBook on GitLab
• Convert from .docx to .md
• Format the French version to feat GitBook architecture
• Push the French version
• Start Translating on a different branch

Bonus

I may use Wekan [MIT], if we need more organization and a task manager. I think GitLab’s issues will be good enough. We will see.