Contributing
===============

Crowbook is a free software, and you can contribute to it. There are
some things that can be accessible even if you don't know anything
about programming.

Internationalization
-------------------------

Crowbook aims to support multiple languages. However, unfortunately,
currently only english, french, and (in a more limited way) spanish
are currently supported. If you want to have better support for the
language you write in, there are easy things you can do:

* Provide a translation for the few strings that Crowbook insert into
  the rendered documents. This is really easy, as there are currently
  less than a dozen of them, and you just need to create a new variant
  of
  the
  [`lang/en.yaml`](https://github.com/lise-henry/crowbook/blob/master/lang/en.yaml) file.
* Open an [issue](https://github.com/lise-henry/crowbook/issues) about
  the typographic rules in your language, if Crowbook doesn't cover
  them.
* Provide a translation for the Crowbook program. It requires creating
  a variant of
  the
  [`.po` file](https://github.com/lise-henry/crowbook/blob/master/lang/fr.po),
  which is a bit more work because (at this time) it's around 1,500
  lines (and less a priority than the first item of this list, as this
  translation only affects the the command-line interface and not the
  rendered documents).