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     hugo server
 
+### Add a new language `$lang`
+
+There is only one content page which contains all languages in the front matter. However hugo requires to have a seperate content document per language. Thus they are simply duplicated by a soft link.
+
+    ln -s content/index.en.md content/index.${lang}.md
+
+Within that page the translation has to be added in the front matter.
+
 ## Deployment
 
 The build and deploy workflow is provided by the contained shell script `build+deploy.sh`.