Anyway to convert a txt file or list into supermemo?

[Shadowdh]

I have not tried that.. I might do that later when I get a moment... I am using an HTC Kaiser/Vario III/TyTN II (it really as three names and more if you count the other variants), it runs on WM6 (or 6.1 as mine is) and is pretty good... well I think so at least...

[Guest realmayo]

I've done it before on a PC and it's pretty annoying but it possible.

I do it by converting everything into Q: and A: format. ie a long list like this

Q: what is 1 + 1?

A: it is 2

Q: what is 2+ 2?

A: it is 4

Q: etc?

A: etc.

if this is how your list is already formatted, but without the Q: and A: at the start of every line, then the Q and A can easily be added in a moment or two via excel & word

[renzhe]

Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to help with Windows machines because they are basically unusable without expensive specialised software or extensive modification.

On a Unix or Mac machine, you can convert the files I posted to the format realmayo specified by executing the following two commands in the vi editor:

:%s/^/Q: /g

:%s/t/rA: /g

If you want, you can download the windows version of the vi editor here, use it to convert the files, then delete it, because it's a programmer's editor that most people feel uncomfortable with. But it comes installed by default on all Linux and Mac computers.

There is nothing on a regular Windows installation that does text processing, let alone regular expressions, so I can't be more helpful here.

[imron]

Haha, renzhe, unleashing vi on a self-described tech illiterate is cruel and unusual punishment . At the very least, you should also tell him the commands:

:w

To save, and

:q

to quit. (which can be combined as :wq if you save and quit at the same time).

In any case, to save more hair tearing, here's the converted files, also in utf-8 format (does supermemo support this?).

Incidentally, search/replace with this regex will do the whole thing in one command, rather than two.

:%s/([^t]*)t(.*)/Q:1rA:2/g

smhsktables.zip

[renzhe]

I was running out of ideas!!!!

Anyway, it's my sneaky way. Trick them into trusting you, then BAM! Vim regexp jungle you can't exit!

[Shadowdh]

Good grief guys, my head hurts... I had a look at that site but I think I would need to do a bit of research before trying anything like that... (the vi site)...

Imron thanks a million mate... I will hopefully get a moment to see if those work tomorrow first thing... much appreciated...

[Shadowdh]

Hi there chaps and chapettes, I tried to import the list and while it says it imports the list comes up with no entries... now I have not doubt there is something I am not doing right... but for the life of me I cannot work it out. Thanks for all your help, I will keep trying...

[Soupbean]

i'm uploading the HSK A in supermemo Q: & A: format for you Shadowdh (and anyone else who wants them). They're in gb2312 encoding with the following formating:

Q: 阿
A: ā(āgē)
(pref) prefix used before kinship terms; (brother)

Q: 阿拉伯语
A: ālābóyǔ(ālābówén)
(n) Arabic

so the pinyin should come up in red and the answer in blue.

Just click on File --> Import --> Import Q & A

after the files finished importing, you'll have to open it and then click on Mode --> HTML

HSK A gb2312.txt

[stephanhodges]

I used Wenlin to convert it to Unicode and UTF-8 formats.

I was quite surprised to see that Wenlin will show text in multiple colors!

HSK A Unicode.txt

HSK A UTF-8.txt

[Shadowdh]

Thanks guys for posting these... its very much appreciated... I have had no time to do anything with supermemo yet but will get on it... cheers

[Capitalist]

Hi all!

Is this working for you guys? The cards import for me, but characters and pinyin + tones show up as gibberish and question marks. I have this problem when importing to both supermemo and mnemosyne, so its probably a problem with my system. Off to hunt for chinese character display...

[Capitalist]

Looks like I can't edit yet, sorry for double post.

In case anyone else was also struggling, I found an answer on the SM wiki that said SM can't recognize UTF-8 line breaks. The user recommended opening desired text with an internet browser, then copying and pasting into notepad and saving as UTF-8 and then importing. When I did this, it didn't work, so I instead saved as Unicode, and my import finally worked. The pinyin doesn't display properly (tones screw it up), but I don't mind manually fixing that, although I may play more with formatting...

[Konrad]

For the Mnemosyne users (open source card review program that uses the SM2 scheduling algorithm):

You can export renzhe's database (thanks!) together with example sentences from dict.cn at http://shengci.wojas.nl/mnemosyne

I have never used Supermemo and I don't know what kind of formatting it supports, but I'm willing to add Supermemo support to this page if anyone can provide me with an example import file.

Cheers,

Konrad

[renzhe]

Wow.

That's quite an impressive list of flashcards you have there.

You could think about exporting to CSV and TSV formats. It's trivial, and many flashcard programs can read those.

[Konrad]

Adding CSV and TSV is trivial if I know how to escape newlines, which is essential for the way this page works (you define a template with which a question side and an answer side is generated).

Does Supermemo use 'n' to escape newlines and '' to escape ''? Does it support markup like bold, italic, font color and font size?

It's already possible to export all data to TSV, but this will not export the example sentences:

UTF-8: http://shengci.wojas.nl/export

Unicode-16 for Excel: http://shengci.wojas.nl/export?msexcel=1

Cheers,

Konrad

[ABCinChina]

If anybody needs any formatting help, let me know. All you need is Notepad, Word, and Excel in most cases. But for some cases you may need a good text editor like UltraEdit.

[Konrad]

Ah, if Supermemo supports this format it would be perfect:

Q: 阿
A: ā(āgē)
(pref) prefix used before kinship terms; (brother)

Q: 阿拉伯语
A: ālābóyǔ(ālābówén)
(n) Arabic

So for the mobile editions gb2312 and big5 versions are required? How archaic. Another option would be to use an & #1234; encoding of all non-ascii characters, would this have any adverse effects?

[Shadowdh]

I actually never got these working and now just use Pleco two... I might try again when I get a spare 5 seconds which should be around 2013 with the way things are going...