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The Most Dangerous Superstition book

The Most Dangerous Superstition

Archive of the legendary book The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose and home of a Czech translation made using DeepL with a tonne of manual corrections.

superstition-orig.md - original text in Markdown format
superstition.md - improved text in Markdown format (some excessive quotes removed)
latex/superstition.tex - improved text in LaTex format
superstition-cz.md - Czech translation in Markdown format
latex/superstition-cz.tex - Czech translation in LaTex format

Pull requests with fixes and improvements are welcome.

Generating LaTex from Markdown

For the English version:

sed -e 's/"\([^"]*\)"/\\enquote{\1}/g' -e 's/\*\*\([^*]*\)\*\*/\\textbf{\1}/g' -e 's/\*\([^*]*\)\*/\\emph{\1}/g' -e 's/^# Part.*: \(.*\)/\\chapter{\1}/' -e 's/^## \(.*\)/\\section{\1}/' -e 's/ \- /---/g' -e 's/\- /-- /g' -e 's/\$/\\$/g' -e 's/%/\\%/g' superstition.md

For the Czech version:

sed -e 's/"\([^"]*\)"/\\enquote{\1}/g' -e 's/\*\*\([^*]*\)\*\*/\\textbf{\1}/g' -e 's/\*\([^*]*\)\*/\\emph{\1}/g' -e 's/^# Část.*: \(.*\)/\\chapter{\1}/' -e 's/^## \(.*\)/\\section{\1}/' -e 's/\- /-- /g' -e 's/\$/\\$/g' -e 's/%/\\%/g' superstition-cz.md

Only works for the main body, the beginning of the file was written manually.

superstition's Issues

The quotes were in the book for a reason

The author uses the quotes because he argues the things in quotes don't really exist, only some people believe they do. It's a deliberate choice and should be preserved to convey the authors intention properly.