Feature request :)

[Ed]

Hi Peter,

I have a feature request for future versions of Mnemosyne.

Right now, I am using a set of cards which feature a wrong spelling for the question and a correct spelling for the answer.

I would like to be able to visually differentiate between the wrong spelling and the correct one.

So, for example, "minuscule" is commonly misspelled as "miniscule". I would like to be able to underline that "u" in the correct answer, or show it in a different colour, or something very similar.

At the moment it seems you can only underline entire words, and this underline applies to *both* the question and the answer, so it is useless for this purpose.

I can see this underlining of individual letters will be very useful when trying to learn languages that have a complex verb conjugation system, case endings on nouns, adjective endings, and strong verbs with ablaut, such as German or Icelandic. But I'm sure it will be useful for most languages to varying extents.

I guess what I'm asking for is to be able to use rich text - to some extent - with the cards.

Thanks for listening, Ed :)

[Gwern Branwen]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Ed <habene...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to visually differentiate between the wrong spelling
> and the correct one.
>
> So, for example, "minuscule" is commonly misspelled as "miniscule". I would
> like to be able to underline that "u" in the correct answer, or show it in a
> different colour, or something very similar.

Why can't you do that now? Playing around in preview, underlining
seems to work fine: 'tes<u>t</u>s' renders as 'tests' with an
underscored 't': https://i.imgur.com/hTtdicV.png

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gwern
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[Timothy Bourke]

* Ed <habene...@gmail.com> [2014-09-13 10:33 -0700]:

> I would like to be able to visually differentiate between the wrong spelling
> and the correct one.
>
> So, for example, "minuscule" is commonly misspelled as "miniscule". I would
> like to be able to underline that "u" in the correct answer, or show it in a
> different colour, or something very similar.
>
> At the moment it seems you can only underline entire words, and this underline
> applies to *both* the question and the answer, so it is useless for this
> purpose.
>
> I can see this underlining of individual letters will be very useful when
> trying to learn languages that have a complex verb conjugation system, case
> endings on nouns, adjective endings, and strong verbs with ablaut, such as
> German or Icelandic. But I'm sure it will be useful for most languages to
> varying extents.

The fast-format plugin is designed to help with this kind of thing:
http://mnemosyne-proj.org/plugins/fast-format

Once installed, you can type:
min`u`scule

to display the 'u' in red. Of course, you can do the same thing with plain
html. The plugin is designed to make it faster and easier.

Tim.

[Ed]

Thanks, Tim. That was exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! Works like a charm. It took me no time at all to edit my wordlist to make the required letters coloured red.

[abaku...@arcor.de]

Hi Ed,

you can use HTML to format your cards. Most of the time HTML is used for Websites, therefore you can format your cards however you like!

Here some dirty HTML-Code: (Just copy it to mnemosyne card.)

<img src="http://mnemosyne-proj.org/sites/default/files/mnemosyne_logo_0.png">
<font size="3" color="red">This is some text!</font>
<font size="2" color="blue">This is some text!</font>
<font face="verdana" color="green">This is some text!</font>
<div align="left">This is normal text - <b>and this is bold text</b>.</div>
<div align="right">This is normal text - <u>and this is underlined text</u></div>
<center>He named his car <i>The lightning</i>, because it was very fast.</center>
<table border="10" padding="4" bgcolor=red align="center">
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=blue>January</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
</table>


http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_b.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_i.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_table.asp

Enjoy!

Greetings,

Abakus
----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: Ed <habene...@gmail.com>
An: mnemosyne-...@googlegroups.com
Datum: 13.09.2014 19:33
Betreff: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Feature request :)

> Hi Peter,
>
> I have a feature request for future versions of Mnemosyne.
>
> Right now, I am using a set of cards which feature a wrong spelling for the
>
> question and a correct spelling for the answer.
>

> I would like to be able to *visually *differentiate between the wrong

> spelling and the correct one.
>

> So, for example, "min*u*scule" is commonly misspelled as "min*i*scule". I

> would like to be able to underline that "u" in the correct answer, or show
> it in a different colour, or something very similar.
>
> At the moment it seems you can only underline entire words, and this
> underline applies to *both* the question and the answer, so it is useless
> for this purpose.
>
> I can see this underlining of individual letters will be very useful when
> trying to learn languages that have a complex verb conjugation system, case
>
> endings on nouns, adjective endings, and strong verbs with ablaut, such as
> German or Icelandic. But I'm sure it will be useful for most languages to
> varying extents.
>

> I guess what I'm asking for is to be able to use rich text - to some extent
>
> - with the cards.
>
> Thanks for listening, Ed :)
>

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