Series, editions & translations
Most novelists end up with more than one book, and sometimes more than one version of the same book. In Galley, a series is an ordered group of books, and a translation or edition is a separate book that's linked to the original.
Grouping books into a series
If you're writing a trilogy or a longer series, open a book's Metadata (or its Book Settings from the dashboard), find Series, type the series name, and give the book its number. After you've typed the name once, it autocompletes, so every book goes in the same series. On the dashboard, the books in a series are grouped together in order, each with its series name and number, so Book 2 is always after Book 1.
To start the next book, open New book , go to From existing, pick the last book and choose Next in series. The new book joins the series with the next number and opens on an empty Chapter 1. It brings the story bible with it (characters, locations, world-building, research, glossary and style sheet), the front and back matter pages (with a fresh copyright page), and the book design. The timeline and references stay behind, because they point at the first book's chapters. It's a copy, so changing a character in book two doesn't change book one.
Editions and translations
For the short version, step by step, see start a translation.
A translation or a new edition is a separate book, linked to the original, so everything that works for a normal book (export, trim, fonts, its own ISBN and cover) works for it too. There are two ways to make one:
- From a book's Metadata page, under Editions & translations: Create translation or New edition .
- From the dashboard's New book window, on the From existing tab.
What a translation does
Pick a target language (there are 48 of them; it has to be different from the original's). Galley then:
- Copies the structure
- Every chapter and part, in order, so the translation has the same structure as the original.
- Copies the story bible
- Characters, locations, glossary, references, world-building, research, the style sheet and the timeline are copied, so you have the characters and terms to translate. Timeline events are linked to the translation's own chapters.
- Leaves the prose empty
- The chapters start empty for you to translate, with the original text shown next to them (see below).
- Sets the language
- So the translation is hyphenated and spellchecked in its own language, and tagged with it in the EPUB.
If the original never had an author set, the translation uses your profile name as the author.
What a new edition does
An edition stays in the same language and copies the whole book, text and all, so you can change it without changing the original. You can use it for a revised edition, a large-print version, or anything else.
The side-by-side translation view
When you open a chapter of a translation, the editor splits in two. The original is on the left, read-only, under an "Original · language" header, and your translation is on the right, where you type. You don't need to switch between two windows, and you can translate paragraph by paragraph with the original right next to it.
CHAPTER ONE
Un scandale en Bohême
Pour Sherlock Holmes, elle est toujours la femme. Je l’ai rarement entendu la désigner autrement. À ses yeux, elle éclipse et domine tout son sexe. Ce n’est pas qu’il éprouvât pour Irene Adler un sentiment proche de l’amour.
Je n’avais guère vu Holmes ces derniers temps. Mon mariage nous avait éloignés l’un de l’autre. Mon propre bonheur, et les mille soucis domestiques qui naissent autour de l’homme qui se trouve pour la première fois maître de son foyer, suffisaient à m’absorber tout entier.
Holmes, qui détestait toute forme de vie mondaine de toute son âme de bohème, était resté dans notre logement de Baker Street, enfoui parmi ses vieux livres
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
* * *
“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Translations
Original · English (US)
The original chapter sits beside you, read-only, while you write the translation on its own page.
Which languages Galley knows
Every book carries one language, set on its Metadata page or chosen when you create a translation. Galley knows 54 languages. The language is used for four things: spellchecking with your browser's dictionary, tagging the EPUB so e-readers know what language it's in, hyphenating the print PDF when the text is justified, and choosing which quote marks your straight quotes turn into.
The full list, each one linking to what Galley does with that language: English (US and UK), French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Welsh, Basque, Catalan, Galician, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Hebrew, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Thai, Pashto, Sindhi, Kurdish (Sorani), Uyghur, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Malay.
Every language above except Hebrew has its own page, covering its typefaces, how its script is typeset, what the exports do with it, and where you can sell a book in it. I haven't written the Hebrew one yet.
Hyphenation
Galley hyphenates 35 of them automatically. It only matters if your text is justified, which is off by default. The nineteen with no hyphenation patterns are Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Hebrew, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Kurdish (Sorani), Uyghur, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean and Thai.
What the print PDF sets
All of them. The PDF includes one of Galley's book faces, and the typefaces you can choose from depend on your book's language, like Amiri for Arabic, Frank Ruhl Libre for Hebrew and Shippori Mincho for Japanese. Typefaces that can't display your script aren't in the list, so you can't pick one by mistake.
Two things to know before you start a translation. Urdu is set in Nastaliq, not the Naskh typefaces used for Arabic, because Urdu readers expect Nastaliq. And scripts outside Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese don't have italics, so emphasis works differently in them. The typeface page lists every face by language.
How they show up
On your dashboard, translations and editions are shown under the original as a small row you can click to open. You create and open them from the original, and they're also listed on its Editions & translations panel. Because each one is a separate book, it has its own details, like a different ISBN, cover and blurb.