Translating books - what are the rules (if any?)

[Christian_Andersen (Christian Rosenkjaer Andersen)]

@Tellus

@ultraviolet

That sounds like Glossing, from Covenants. Where a magus with Art at least half of what the book is, and with higher Communication makes notes in the book while reading, for +1 Quality (once only). Also, you can't translate from one language to the same. While I see translating from one langue to another one risks losing some information, I don't see a translation improving the insight from the original work. But the Translator might Gloss the text, if he can add anything to it.

I don't see why you couldn't gloss as you translate (or even copy) and even add your own comments drectly into the text.
It'd be dishonest certainly, but that's different.

I'm also of the oppinion that you can do this. If you're honest you just write that the book is a translation with additions.
My point is that translating and glossing are two different things. And that if somebody house rules translation to be able to raise quality, if you yourself could write a better book, "translating" from latin to latin should not give greater benefit than glossing.