Scientific notation

[Chris Williams]

Hello - I've just started using mnemosyne to learn the multitude of
new words in my studies towards becoming a paramedic. One element of
this stage of my training is chemistry, which I last studied for O
level some 30 years ago! Chemical formulae use what appears to be
subscript ie small numbers below the text. I'm also using scientific
notation which uses superscript to show the power of ten. I do
understand that mnemosyne can only import basic text so these features
do not transfer correctly. I tried to follow the information
regarding LaTeX, but that is all way over my head and to be honest I
have enough to learn without having to learn that depth of new
software/programming.

Is there a simple way of importing scientific notation/chemical
formulae or is there a tutorial / talk through anywhere that would
help me get there?

Thanks for the project!

Chris

[George Wade]

You could make a graphic of the offending Q's & A's whenever they turn up and insert those graphics into cards as necessary.  That might give you time to learn how to manage LaTeX;  which is not difficult if there is time to relax while learning just the parts that do your job.

George

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Chris Williams <chr15w...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Hello - I've just started using mnemosyne to learn the multitude of

new words in my studies towards becoming a paramedic.....

 

Is there a simple way of importing scientific notation/chemical
formulae or is there a tutorial / talk through anywhere that would
help me get there?

Thanks for the project!

Chris

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[Nick Burger]

FYI - you can use HTML  and  tags to cover the
basics. For example: 1.3445 x 10^-3 and H₂O

Also, here are some latex basics:
use: <latex>this is latex stuff</latex> to add latex to a card
use: \\ to add a new line to the latex
use: $math stuff$ to set off math/equation stuff
use: 1.3445 \times 10^{-3} for scientific notation
use: ^ for superscript and _ for subscript

I created the attached latex output with this, for example:
<latex>Use $1.3445 \times 10^{-3}$g of $CH_3N_2$ to do the thing.\\I
know, I just threw some letters together.\\\\Anyway, you can do this
too $^2_1H^i_k$</latex>

If it doesn't work then make sure that you have latex installed, you
may also need the AMSmath math package in your preamble (it's pretty
easy, someone can help with that if needed).

Nick

[abaku...@arcor.de]

Hey Chris,

maybe these links could help you?! :

http://www.matheboard.de/formeleditor.php
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

You could also generate images with this online tool. There's a basic latex document in the form. The website is in German, but I think you'll understand anyway.

http://did.mat.uni-bayreuth.de/personen/wassermann/fun/tex.html

VG,

Abakus

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Von: Chris Williams <chr15w...@btinternet.com>
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Datum: 11.09.2011 10:56
Betreff: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Scientific notation

[Roel De Coninck]

thanks for these links, the're great!

a beginning latex user

[Chris Williams]

Thank you all for your prompt and most useful advice. Progress is
being made!

[Roel De Coninck]

Hi Nick and others,

I'm starting with latex too.  I have a small problem: i'm not able to make changes in my preamble that have an effect. 

I'm trying to add these two commands to my preamble:

\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{amssymb}

When I do it in my default latex program, it works (testing with $\mathbb{R}$ ) 

But in Mnemosyne, nothing changes.  

Could it be that I'm not modifying the correct preamble?  I mean: i'm not sure if I'm modifying an old preamble in this folder: C:\Users\my_username\.mnemosyne\latex or if I should find another preamble somewhere on my computer (windows 7).  

I think I might be changing a wrong file because the .tex file and the out.txt file are here: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Roaming\mnemosyne\default.db_media\_latex.  And indeed, the tmp.tex file does NOT contain my modified preamble.

Any hints?

thanks,

Roel

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

In 1.x, you need to delete all the png files in the latex directory
before these changes take effect.

In 2.0, this happens automatically.

Cheers,

Peter

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[Roel De Coninck]

Hi,

I'm still confused because in this folder: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Roaming\mnemosyne\ (the 2.0 folder, right?) there is no preamble to be found.

Where can i find the preamble for Mnemosyne 2.0?

thanks

roel

[Peter Bienstman]

In 2.0, it's merged in C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Roaming\mnemosyne\config.py

Cheers,

Peter

[Roel De Coninck]

Excellent, that is exactly what I was searching.

Thanks a lot,

Roel