Interesting. Thanks for the help. I think it could save me lots and
lots of time.

Best,

Rax.

On Jan 27, 10:52 am, Nick B <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Excel to make sets of complex cards.  The easiest way to get the
> correct format is to copy and paste into a text file.  It just happens
> to format the text correctly.
>
> Nick
> (please excuse any errors, this was written on an iPad)
>
> On Jan 26, 2011, at 23:52, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote:> 
> 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
>
> >>> --
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> >>> Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology
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> >>> tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93
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>
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