Milan Zamazal <p...@zamazal.org> writes:
> GB> still only once there. If I want to track the learning in both
> GB> directions separately, I need to make two items for one word,
> GB> once german-spanish and once spanish-german. Am I right?
I've used org-drill for both English/Hawaiian and English/Hindi, and
I've never been able to get balanced two-way drills without making
separate cards for each direction. But making card pairs is really easy
to automate.
I make a .org file with words in one direction only, semicolon separated
like this:
hindiword1;englishword1
hindiword2;englishword2
etc. etc. and then call the following elisp. (Obviously works for any
pair of languages.) The elisp sets up a two-way org drill file that does
what I want. The coding is crude and could be improved however it works,
which is something of a benefit :)
;; Make Hindi flashcards for org-drill
;; Pseudo-Two sided, English/Hindi
(defun org-make-hindi ()
"Make Hindi flashcards"
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-min))
;; Process each line top to bottom.
(while (not (eobp))
(beginning-of-line)
(setq frontofline (point))
(search-forward ";")
(backward-delete-char 1)
(setq partone (buffer-substring frontofline (point)))
(delete-region frontofline (point))
(setq frontofline (point))
(end-of-line)
(setq parttwo (buffer-substring frontofline (point)))
(delete-region frontofline (point))
(delete-char 1)
(insert (concat "** Word :drill:\n:PROPERTIES:\n:END:\n"
partone "\n*** A\n" parttwo "\n"
"** Word :drill:\n:PROPERTIES:\n:END:\n"
parttwo "\n" "*** A\n" partone "\n"))
)
)
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Honolulu, Hawai`i
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