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Book Translation Project Plan: Style Sheet, Chunks and Review

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The prompt

I want to translate a whole book with AI and keep it consistent from the first chapter to the last. Help me set up the project before we translate anything. Book: [genre, length in pages or words, format: epub / PDF / Word / scanned] From [language] into [language]. Audience: [general readers / students / children's book read by adults] Rights: [I own it / I have permission from the author or publisher / it's for my private reading only] Give me: 1. Preparation: how to turn my file into clean plain text, and what to check (footnotes, tables, image captions, chapter breaks). 2. A style sheet to fill in together: tone and register, how to handle names, honorifics, units, currency, idioms, songs or verse, swear words, and cultural references (keep, explain, or adapt). 3. A glossary format for recurring terms and character names, and how to grow it as we go. 4. Chunking: how big each piece should be, and what context to pass with each chunk (style sheet, glossary, the previous paragraph, a short summary so far). 5. A review pass: what a native-speaker reader should check, and a checklist for idioms that are correct but sound off. Remind me that publishing or selling a translation needs the rights holder's permission.

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