On Thursday, January 27, 2011 03:35:52 am G. wrote:
> > Just create a single text file with the first column the question, and
> > the second column the answer.
> 
> No delimiter is required for separating the columns? They are of
> uneven lengths and include spaces . . .

The columns should be delimited by tab.

> Can this equally be done in an excel or numbers spreadsheet? Would it
> follow the same syntax (first col: Q, 2nd col: A)?

Yes, but then you'd need to export the excel file to a txt file first anyway.

Cheers,

Peter

> Thank you for the help,
> 
> Rax
> 
> On Jan 26, 5:34 am, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just create a single text file with the first column the question, and
> > the second column the answer. You don't need to do anything special for
> > images, just have the <img src="path/foo.png"> tags in the text.
> > 
> > After you import this text file, you can select all these cards in the
> > card browser, right  click, and do 'add vice versa'.
> > 
> > However, unless you need this text file for some other purpose, I would
> > just recommend adding the info directly to Mnemosyne through 'add
> > cards'.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:52:09 am G. wrote:
> > > Howdy!
> > > 
> > > I regularly upload around 80 new cards with associated sound files. Up
> > > to date I have done this by a) creating a text file numbering the
> > > questions, one question per line b) creating another text file
> > > numbering the answers, one per line c) naming the audio files in order
> > > so that their number matches the Q/A number and storing them in
> > > Mnemosyne and then d) adding each card one by one (copy paste
> > > question, copy-paste answer, add sound, set initial score). This is
> > > slow!
> > > 
> > > I've recently written a script that automatically names my audio
> > > files, which made me think: "there /must/ be a better way to do this!"
> > > so that's my question - is there a better way to add these cards?!
> > > 
> > > It would be relatively easy for me to create an excel file with one
> > > column questions and the other column answers, but what exactly do I
> > > have to do to ensure that the audio files are also associated with the
> > > cards and that the reverse card is also added?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > 
> > > Rax
> > 
> > --
> > Peter Bienstman
> > Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology
> > Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
> > tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93
> > WWW:http://photonics.intec.UGent.be
> > email: [email protected]

-- 
Peter Bienstman
Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93
WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be
email: [email protected]

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