Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Latex not formatting Greek symbols (i.e. boldface)

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, Perhaps it's a good idea to try to get this to work in latex outside of Mnemosyne itself. Then you can be sure your latex setup is OK. Cheers, Peter On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 05:03:07 pm Mojo wrote: Nick, I tried your tip. It had no effect. Still cannot apply boldface to Greek

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: can someone confirm the intervals for the spaced repetition

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Bienstman
at a bigger gap than a brand new card? Dougie On 18/11/2010 12:04, Peter Bienstman wrote: In that case, the interval is set back to zero. Cheers, Peter On Nov 18, 11:05 am, Alex Whitealexwhit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I understand how the algo works in getting things right

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: can someone confirm the intervals for the spaced repetition

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Bienstman
. I'm going to start slipping it into conversations! Dougie On 18/11/2010 16:16, Peter Bienstman wrote: The interval is reset, but not it's easiness. (That's how the original SM2 algorithm works, too) Peter On Thursday, November 18, 2010 04:59:02 pm Dougie Nisbet wrote

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Multiple users on a computer?

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Bienstman
this on my 'work' computer where I don't want another account but where I do use mnemosyne. On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.bewrote: It's easiest to create different accounts on that machine, and let each user log in under his/her own account

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Intermittent Sound Problems

2010-11-26 Thread Peter Bienstman
into Preview will sometimes play it as well. Once it does play it does not necessarily mean it will play when I try again. It does seem to effect only short files (1-2 seconds). Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks, Charles. -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Two questions about Abbreviated Card Statistics plugin

2010-11-26 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, November 26, 2010 12:27:00 pm Dougie Nisbet wrote: Hi, I've been using the Abbreviated Card Statistics plugin ( http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/node/177 )for a few weeks and have a couple of questions. (Note that I'm not the author of that plugin, but I had a quick look at the

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: hierarchical learning?

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Bienstman
to mother-cards, so that it only asks me about the sub-cards once I've learned the mother- card? I have a feeling this might be done with categories in some way, but I haven't been able to think of a good one. e -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Pausing?

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Bienstman
the important new ones first? Thanks for your time and consideration, Chris S. -- 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: peter.bienst

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Pausing?

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 04:19:55 am G. wrote: The only problem with the above is that categories are listed in a strange way such that number 9 are listed after the leading number (e.g. for 12 chapters, they list as follows: 1, 10,11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Fixed in 2.0 and

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Pausing?

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 07:55:17 pm unpeulent wrote: Chris, I think that if you don't cheat on dates, when you launch it, mnemosyne calculates the sum of all the scheduled cards between the current (true or tempered with) date and the last (true or tempered with) date. When you

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Pausing?

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Thursday, December 09, 2010 04:23:11 am G. wrote: Hi Nick, Thanks for the advice. I guess I just have to wait for 2.0 for Mac to be ready . . . Quick question along the lines of spacing issues: when using Mnemosyne for something like vocabulary, when would one use the zero category? I

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Interpreting log.txt entries

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Bienstman
BTW, in the current 2.0 codebase, there is code to parse these log entries and write the results to an sql database (libmnemosyne/ file_formats/science_log_parser and science_server/parse_logs), which could be useful :-) For instance, when database is mentioned, three numbers follow. Example:

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] thinking time?

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Bienstman
is scheduled, or is it just another data point to capture for analysis? Thanks MC -- 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

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: thinking time?

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Bienstman
Not at all. It's easy to disregard large values. Cheers, Peter So do I horribly screw up your data by producing an extremely outlying datum each time I walk away from the program while it's running? - Chris On Dec 11, 2:08 am, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: It's

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: how to get more of new cards scheduled?

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Bienstman
And, I still want all those new words introduced gradually during the session and to hold no more than 5 zero cards in my hand at any given time. The philosophy of Mnemosyne is that you first spend time reviewing stuff you've already memorised, and only then start working on memorising new

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Interpreting log.txt entries

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Bienstman
a random number drawn from a normal distribution with mean=0 and standard devation=1? Something else? Thanks! -Matt -- 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

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] unexpectedly short review interval for easy card

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Bienstman
that an easy card is scheduled for almost immediate review. It's easier to look at the screendumps in the link than for me to explain! Dougie -- 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

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] unexpectedly short review interval for easy card

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Bienstman
My use of mnemosyne is now pretty steady consistent but in the early days there was potentially a bit of corruption as I was trying different setups. Initially I imported cards from supermemo that I used to run on my old Palm Tungsten PDA. That could indeed explain it. Unfortunately, the

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Unexpected Termination

2010-12-21 Thread Peter Bienstman
there is a similar bug reported when adding cards - it happens to me when reviewing as well. Thanks, Charles. -- 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

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Unexpected Termination

2010-12-21 Thread Peter Bienstman
urllib2.pyc, line 337, in _call_chain File urllib2.pyc, line 1021, in http_open File urllib2.pyc, line 996, in do_open URLError: urlopen error (11004, 'getaddrinfo failed') Hope that helps. Thanks, Charles. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.bewrote

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Sound Files in Non Latin Script

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Bienstman
I know Mnemosyne 2 has a new sound engine so may have to wait. Indeed! P.S. Does Version 2 have an ETA yet? Should be 2011, I guess :-) Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] automatically closing mnemosyne

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, There is no way of forcing a save explicitly from outside the program at the moment. However, in 2.0 the database is saved after each revision, so there is will be OK to kill the program. Peter I use Ubuntu 10.10 with mnemosyne and I synchronize the data files using dropbox. Here is my

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] List of cards by easiness

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, You'll be able to do this in 2.0. Cheers, Peter On Thursday, January 06, 2011 06:34:04 am dazedconfused wrote: I'd like to navigate through all the cards that are rated between 2 and 3 for easiness. Is there a way? Thanks -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Dynamic/extensible cards and new areas of study with Mnemosyne

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Bienstman
BTW, if anyone wants to implement this, the most 'dynamic' card type implemented at the moment in 2.0 is the one with close deletion. It starts from a string marked with words to close-delete, and then dynamically creates one or more cards based on this. So, have a look at that piece of source

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Import Format [Streamlining Imports]

2011-01-26 Thread Peter Bienstman
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: peter.bienst...@ugent.be -- You received

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Quality Control

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, It is pretty much impossible for me both in terms of time and in terms of lack of expertise to vet every deck posted on the site. What you can of course always do is add comments on the site to rate that deck, or fix errors and upload the new version. Cheers, Peter On Feb 2, 5:55 pm, Mo

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] New open source web app that uses Mnemosyne algorithm

2011-02-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hey guys, I created a new open source, spaced repetition web app called Memizr [http://memizr.com]. It is written in python/django and uses the same scheduling algorithm as Mnemosyne. It is licensed under the AGPL license and the source code is available here

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Quality Control

2011-02-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
Maybe some sort of revision control (hg/bzr/git) would be a good idea for the lists? It's a lot of work for our webmaster, and a day is only 24 hours :-) Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users group. To post to this group,

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Quality Control

2011-02-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Thursday, February 03, 2011 05:36:22 pm Murray James Morrison wrote: But for me (learning Chinese) self-made decks are the only way to fly. Just for the record, I'm in this camp as well, especially when it comes to languages. For stuff like e.g. country capitals, premade decks can be

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Exhaust one category before moving to another one?

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, February 04, 2011 02:00:35 pm Michael Campbell wrote: This would be more trouble than it's worth for me, just due to the large and disparate set of categories I have. I usually do them in sets, so an alternate solution would be to have some functionality to HAVE sets of categories

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] mnemosyne research data validation

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Sunday, February 06, 2011 04:41:44 pm normunds wrote: I wonder is there a consistent interpretation of mnemosyne gathered data possible. Has anybody analysed it Not really, Mnemosyne 2.0 is my priority now. and what assumptions do you make and how do you filter of wrong data from regular

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] changing color of mnemosyne window?

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 07:06:50 am windchild wrote: this is pretty silly, I admit, but what file do I edit in order to change the blue to black on the main window of mnemosyne? has anyone done this? I'm not really sure what blue colour you are talking about. If you are talking

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: changing color of mnemosyne window?

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Bienstman
Once the dust around 2.x settles a bit, I'll probably port Anki's functionality on this. Cheers, Peter On Thursday, February 24, 2011 07:02:10 am windchild wrote: just so I don`t have a totally nonsensical thread... is there any way to display furigana on the answer side of the card? --

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, February 25, 2011 03:24:01 am G. wrote: I have also found M. to take a very long time to load the edit deck window; once open - it is not very smooth i.e. there are large time lags between clicking to scroll the actual scrolling. It is enough of a problem that I have made every

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, February 25, 2011 12:05:41 am Timothy Mott wrote: Is there anything I can do to speed up the program? It took me ages to add a collection of cards, and now it's taking even longer to delete them. I've been waiting over 3 hours and have no idea how much longer it will take. At the

Feature requests (was: Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!)

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Bienstman
Ps. I've had this list of features that would be useful, based on my own usage. I've been meaning to post them for some time figure sooner is better than later: where is the proper place to post? I couldn't find a dedicated page . . . Here they are, in no particular order: There is our

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Bienstman
Howdy Peter! Thanks for this. Checked out the page, but it looks quite a bit beyond my current abilities. Given that I'm in school full time working, this may have to be play that waits until the spring . . . OK! How difficult is it to learn python if one is already familiar with

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Bienstman
/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en. -- 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: peter.bienst...@ugent.be -- You received this message because you

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Cards just keep piling up when I miss a day

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 07:05:48 am Lindsey wrote: So according to the website If this is not possible, it's not a major worry-- Mnemosyne will automatically postpone the cards for you. However, if you frequently miss days, your recall will suffer. But anytime I miss a day it just adds

Re: Feature requests (was: Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!)

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 08:45:12 am normunds wrote: This is something I also hope will be possible in 2.0. Either solved with multiple categories, or otherwise. If it is possible to determine add card event and distinguish direct vs. inverse then it's easy to add this catgeory via plugin

Re: Feature requests (was: Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Mnemosyne is unbearably slow!)

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:57:48 pm G. wrote: Insofar as memorization that involves two (or more) steps of initial recognition and subsequently more specified recognition: I'm imagining a situation where initially you introduce a set of vocab words (say 20 new words) - some of which

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, March 04, 2011 08:56:55 am normunds wrote: today if I create an entry from a dictionary definition it makes something like: 枪 - qiāng - gun/firearm/rifle/spear/thing with shape or function similar to a gun/CL:支[zhi1],把[ba3],杆[gan3],�l|条[tiao2],枝[zhi1]/to substitute for another

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] shrinking mouse cursor (Ubuntu Lucid Lynx)

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, I've just upgraded to the latest Ubuntu LTS release and I've got a minor problem with the GUI. Every time I move the pointer over the Mnemosyne window, my big gnome cursor shrinks. I guess this is a general problem with qt3 apps in Ubuntu, now that Kde3 is no longer shipped, but

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] What's wrong with my XML here?

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, The piece of xml you sent me worked just fine with the end tag, so it's hard to say what exactly your problem is. Do you have a smaller file which reproduces the problem? Peter On Monday, March 07, 2011 05:15:00 pm Wiryami McPolar wrote: Hi Peter. Thanks for the tip. My document has

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 03:11:27 am Murray James Morrison wrote: Didn't know about the entry shortcuts. Didn't think to tile my Mnemosyne and Notepad windows together. I suppose if I knew that, that would save some time. Maybe put that information into a Did You Know tip on startup? I

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-10 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, March 11, 2011 03:52:16 am G. wrote: e.g. Initially: when first learning a verb, one would be exposed to the various forms that one need be able to recognize /as a group/. Q: أطلق، يطلق، الاطلاق A: to let go release Finally: to move the user away from depending on the group for

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Bienstman
Everything is possible with plugins. When 2.0 comes out, it will have the option for a pronunciation field, just as with the 3 sided cards from 1.x. Post 2.0, I intend to add some separated functionality specific for Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic and Hebrew which streamlines this. Cheres, Peter

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Organising Q A data for various purposes

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Bienstman
I have English equivalent, kana pronunciation, kanji and audio coming along soon. What are effective ways of ordering the cards for different purposes? Learning to read; write; listen; speak or other purposes. I have my own system and am interested in what people with various learning

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Mar 12, 10:56 am, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Everything is possible with plugins. When 2.0 comes out, it will have the option for a pronunciation field, just as with the 3 sided cards from 1.x. of course in 1.x it's not a separate field. The pronunciation gets

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Feature requests

2011-03-14 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Sunday, March 13, 2011 06:00:33 pm Randi H. wrote: I think this is the general behavior of tech-literate people vs non-toch-literate people... While the latter prefer a simple interface with buttons to work with, the former usually speed up things by working with scripts and parsing a lot

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Estimating popularity of spaced repetition

2011-03-19 Thread Peter Bienstman
I tallied up some random metrics here: http://www.gwern.net/Mnemosyne.html#popularity My best guess, for those of you who don't want to look at the table, is that the worldwide population is under 100,000. Which is a little disappointing for such a useful technology. I wasn't able to

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Estimating popularity of spaced repetition

2011-03-20 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: I wasn't able to easily find the metrics you are referring too, but I personally find 100 000 a big number :-) I linked directly to the section, so it should've been hard to miss the table. I recently

[mnemosyne-proj-users] towards 2.0 alpha 1

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, I'm almost done with implementing the features I want for 2.0. There are still some loose ends, like adding and removing tags through the card browser, but the end is in sight. Since a few days, I've also started dogfooding, and I'm now using 2.0 for my own reviews. It's amazing how

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] format cards and maintain learning data

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Bienstman
to denote word roots, word type, etc. But this system developed while I was using mnemosyne so the older cards follow an older format. Is there a way to write a script that iterates through the cards yo update the format of the older ones while maintaining learning data? Thanks. -- Peter

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: How does mnemosyne deal with studying cards and repetitions after a long break?

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Bienstman
Turns out I remembered it fairly easily and marked it a 3 to be safe. I then looked it up in the database and checked it's statistics again. However it says that days until next test = 5 ! That's because you wanted to be safe :-) If you had used grade 4, your next interval would have been

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Combining Databases

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, Just export them to xml without resetting the learing data, and then import that file in the joint database. Cheers, Peter Quoting burun...@gmail.com burun...@gmail.com: I'm just wondering if someone would mind directing me to directions for combining databases. I have a number of

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Bigger Text

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Bienstman
Which plugin are you refering too? Anyhow, I did not write this plugin myself, so if the plugin author does not read this list, then it's best to contact him directly. Cheers, Peter Quoting Heather afterglow...@gmail.com: I've just started using one of the kana plugins and the kana is

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] changing the schedule for some of the cards

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Bienstman
far ahead in an earlier date. By the same token, wouldn't what you advised here affect all the cards? I want to modify the next rep date for only a subset of the cards. Am I missing something here? Murat On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.bewrote: Hi, What

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Renaming Categories

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, April 15, 2011 06:34:07 am burun...@gmail.com wrote: I was just wondering if there is any way to rename categories you have previously created and have all the cards that were under those categories move to the new category name. I have a large database I started making about a

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: towards 2.0 alpha 1

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, April 15, 2011 02:31:46 am ChaletPol wrote: Can I use the 2.0 alpha while keeping a 1.x version on your computer? It should keep your old database intact, but will overwrite the installed program. Obviously, you can reinstall the old version again, but there is no way to convert a

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: towards 2.0 alpha 1

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Bienstman
If I keep all of my cards backed up as an XML or something somewhere, that would be safe, wouldn't it? Just back up your entire .mnemosyne directory, containing default.mem etc, and you should be safe. Just don't use it yet for 'real' reviews. Cramming and looking around is ok, though.

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] rules to generate xml for import

2011-04-24 Thread Peter Bienstman
Perhaps it's easier to use txt import and replare the newlines by br? Cheers, Peter I have some Q/A pairs that I export from Quizlet that I want to import into Mnemosyne. The problem is that each question and answer has multiple lines. I thought of putting them in xml for import but there is

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Changing grade for a single card

2011-04-26 Thread Peter Bienstman
The only way to change the grade is through the review procedure. If there were a way in the GUI to bypass/circumvent the grading mechanism, that would rather defeat the purpose of it :-) Taking a step backwards, why do you want to change the grade of a card? Peter On Apr 26, 6:06 pm, jasper

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Changing grade for a single card

2011-04-27 Thread Peter Bienstman
:04 pm, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: The only way to change the grade is through the review procedure. If there were a way in the GUI to bypass/circumvent the grading mechanism, that would rather defeat the purpose of it :-) Taking a step backwards, why do you want

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Reverse Questions Answers

2011-04-29 Thread Peter Bienstman
Select all the relevant cards in the card browser, right click and choose 'add vice versa'. Cheers, Peter On Apr 29, 3:38 am, Daniel Chui dyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I am using this wonderful program to study Spanish. I have downloaded the 1001 Most Useful Words and it is excellent being

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Automaticly import multiple sound files

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Bienstman
/ear-interval/998byyy (English) Some other interesting sites on this subject: German: http://klaus-kauker.de/whatch.html?7?1?5?CD6678A42CBAD6E7?Intervalle%20%28 4%20Videos%29 English: http://www.trainear.com/ -- Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint

[mnemosyne-proj-users] 2.0 status update

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, Small update on how things are going on the 2.0 front. I've been happily using 2.0 myself for my own reviews for over several weeks now, noting all the bugs and useability issues I encountered. At first, I was in a regime where I found problems faster than I could solve them, but now this

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: 2.0 status update

2011-05-18 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 08:01:12 AM ChaletPol wrote: Will the problem with displaying Hebrew vowel marks be fixed in 2.0? I assume so, my arabic vowel marks behave much better in 2.0. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups mnemosyne-proj-users

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] proper media pathway?

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 08:36:58 PM G. wrote: Hi there - I created some cards that include media files (mp3s) wanted to share it with a few friends. I'm on a Mac located all the media files inside the .mnemosyne directory. Two of my friends have Macs didn't have any trouble getting

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: proper media pathway?

2011-05-20 Thread Peter Bienstman
In theory yes, in practice you might need to play around with the slashes in 1.x. Peter In theory should the path be the same? On May 19, 3:10 am, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 08:36:58 PM G. wrote: Hi there - I created some cards

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Bienstman
I'm not involved in packaging for Ubuntu :-) Building from source is a matter of downloading the tgz file, extracting it and typing 'sudo python setup.py install' Cheers, Peter Quoting mzatanoskas mzatanos...@googlemail.com: Thanks for the heads up and the solution. I've just installed

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Suggestion: Option to chose where to place the .mnemosyne folder on installation.

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
You can start mnemosyne with the -d option, to specify which data dirertory it uses, e.g. mnemosyne -h full-path-to-my-funky-datadir Cheers, Peter Quoting mzatanoskas mzatanos...@googlemail.com: Suggestion: Option to chose where to place the .mnemosyne folder on installation. I think

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Creating cards (only one, no flip version)

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
You might have accidentally checked the 'add vice-versa' option in the 'add cards' dialog. Uncheck this and you should be fine. Cheers, Peter On May 23, 12:51 pm, durd durd...@gmail.com wrote: (Mnemosyne 1.2.1, Mac OS X) Hi, When I add a new card to the deck Mnemosyne creates two cards

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Changing grade for a single card

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
Approved for 2.x, not for 2.0, I'm afraid... Peter Quoting Scott Youngman syo...@gmail.com: Undo is already an approved enhancement for 2.0. Yay! See: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mnemosyne-proj/+spec/undo-last-card On May 23, 3:47 pm, Dougie Nisbet substatio...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Oh

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Creating cards (only one, no flip version)

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
...@gmail.com: On May 23, 1:07 pm, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: You might have accidentally checked the 'add vice-versa' option in the 'add cards' dialog. Uncheck this and you should be fine. Unfortunately, it seems that there is no such option in my version of software (1.2.1

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Deck history?

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
If you export your database to xml, there is a time_of_start attribute a the top of the file, which is a unix timestamp. In 2.0, you can see the date each card was created in the card browser, so that gives you similar info as well. Cheers, Peter Quoting Michael Campbell

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Creating cards (only one, no flip version)

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Bienstman
If you filled out a prununciation field, then you are dealing with a three-sided card, and the vice versa card is added automatically. In 2.0, this is a bit more flexible: you can e.g. still use three-sided cards, but choose to disable e.g. the recognition card for a certain language.

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Wait for 2.0?

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Bienstman
from 1.x. you mean Supermemo7 txt - importer? In other words: no import of learning data? / Henrik On 20 Mai, 09:08, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Hi, I am a keen user of Supermemo 7.5 (1995). Miraculously (and with a lot of frustration... ) I have managed to keep this SW

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Set grade on import of .txt?

2011-05-28 Thread Peter Bienstman
formulated. After lots of coffe and spacebar pressing I should be happily flying? / Henrik On 27 Mai, 13:34, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: On Friday, May 27, 2011 11:55:24 AM Henrik in Oslo wrote: Hi I want to import Supermemo7 text in Q:/A format. Can I select initial

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: feedback on 1.2.2

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Bienstman
Thanks for taking the time to give detailed feedback! * Vice versa should not add an independent second card but rather be integrated, so that editing a flash card does not require editing two cards. In 2.0. * Images should be automatically scaled. 2.0 has scroll bars in the

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Installing Windows Mnemosyne on a USB stick from a Linux computer

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Bienstman
You could try using an emulator like Wine, but I'm not sure if Mnemosyne works under Wine. Otherwise, you'll have to find a Windows machine first... Peter On Jun 15, 10:09 am, EY eddy.ya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I run a Linux computer at home. I'd like to install a Windows version of

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] How to download Mnemosyne software in English, from Japan?

2011-06-20 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Monday, June 20, 2011 10:31:36 AM Claudius Maximus wrote: Hi all, I have been trying, without any luck, to download the software in English, from my computer in Japan. Is there some way to do this? Each time, I get the software with a Japanese menu. Thanks in advance, for any solutions

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: pre tag not working

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
The html handling is not done my Mnemonyse itself, but by the GUI toolkit Qt. For 2.0, we switch from Qt3 to Qt4 which has much better html support. If you just want to align you text left, there is a workaround http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/help/advanced-preferences.php Peter On Jun 23, 10:47 

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] where is plugins folder?

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Bienstman
plugings :( and i am very sad about this can any one help me? i am using windows xp -- 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: peter.bienst

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Who are the researchers who use the mnemosyne collected data?

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 04:39:43 PM John Salvatier wrote: I am interested in looking at the research facilitated by mnemosyne data, who are the researchers who use it? I plan on looking at the data eventually, but at the moment getting 2.0 out of the door is much higher on my priority list

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Who are the researchers who use the mnemosyne collected data?

2011-07-14 Thread Peter Bienstman
, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 04:39:43 PM John Salvatier wrote: I am interested in looking at the research facilitated by mnemosyne data, who are the researchers who use it? I plan on looking at the data eventually, but at the moment getting

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Tools for building and construction of learning DB

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Friday, July 15, 2011 08:33:23 AM Henrik in Oslo wrote: I am now using Supermemo7 and Mnemosyne in paralell. I am building a DB of art history, which so far contains ~ 500 items. Works welll :-) You have done a wonderfull piece of work. Thanks, you're welcome! In Mnemosyne: 1) I

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] What is the difference when I choose reset learning data on importing/exporting?

2011-07-25 Thread Peter Bienstman
thanks! Best Regards, from a newbie, Bono -- 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: peter.bienst...@ugent.be -- You received

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Installed Fine but does not run

2011-07-26 Thread Peter Bienstman
You need to install the PIL library http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Under Ubuntu, it's the python-imaging package. Cheers, Peter On Jul 25, 9:55 pm, brodashim thomas.pe...@gmail.com wrote: So, I tried to install the mnemosyne for Linux... Everything worked perfect by the

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: Audio files

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Bienstman
This should be solved in the upcoming 2.0. Cheers, Peter On Aug 3, 12:27 pm, silverbear b...@grizz.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I've just added some audio files to my Mnemosyne Spanish deck. They work fine except for where the file name contains accented characters e.g. mano.mp3 works OK, but

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne 2.0 alpha 1 released

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, After three years of slow but steady progress, I believe the time has finally come to release the first alpha of 2.0. Some remarks: * I've been using the 2.0 code base for my own reviews for several months now, so probably the worst data corruption bugs have been caught :-) Still, it's

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] $385 prize for best spaced repetition literature review blog post

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Bienstman
Congratulations! Peter Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:35 AM, John Salvatier jsalvat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am interested in understanding what useful information is known with confidence about spaced repetition, so that that knowledge can guide my

[mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne 2.0 beta 1 released

2011-08-20 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, Time to move to beta phase! Changes from the alpha: * bug fixes, mainly on Windows * Windows installer: http://users.ugent.be/~pbienst/pub/mnemosyne-beta-1-setup.exe Enjoy! Peter Hi, After three years of slow but steady progress, I believe the time has finally come to release the

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: runtime error

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Bienstman
support team for more information. any suggestions? -- 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: peter.bienst...@ugent.be

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne 2 beta - exe works fine on wine, win7 runtime error

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi, Looks very much like you are using beta 1. Can you try with beta 2? http://users.ugent.be/~pbienst/pub/mnemosyne-beta-2-setup.exe Peter Hi Peter, since I am using Ubuntu, I've installed the exe under wine, it works fine without importing history files. It seems to take forever to

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne 2 beta: some comments

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi Murray, Thanks for taking the time to write such detailed feedback! On Monday, August 22, 2011 10:42:00 PM Murray James Morrison wrote: -The add card, edit card, browse card dialog boxes need maximize buttons. If you use large fonts for your cards, the default size of the dialog box is

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: upgrade problem beta 2: sound files and formatting

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Thanks for the feedback! I'm afraid the authors of 1.x plugins will have to rewrite them for 2.0. 2.0 itself has various new formatting options (Settings - Set card appearance), so perhaps you no longer have any need for the formatting

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Re: upgrade problem beta 2: sound files and formatting

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 03:31:38 PM usch wrote: Hi Peter, which of the files do you need or do I have to send the whole .mnemosyne folder? Give my thanks to Tim :) Regards Uschi On Aug 23, 2:36 pm, Peter Bienstman peter.bienst...@ugent.be wrote: Hi Uschi, If you find some time, I'd

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne 2 beta: some comments

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
Hi Dave, Thanks for the offer! Best to coordinate this with our webmaster Patrick, as he also offered to work on this. Cheers, Peter On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 04:56:05 PM David A. Harding wrote: In message 201108231343.46938.peter.bienst...@ugent.be, Peter Bienstman wrote: [Document

Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Mnemosyne 2 beta: some comments

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Bienstman
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 04:41:11 PM Murray James Morrison wrote: Hi Peter, By hide quick icons I meant the Add Card, Edit Card, Delete Card, Browse Cards and Statistics icons in the upper left hand corner. Ah, you mean the toolbar. Any particular reason why you want to turn this off?

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