gregh 2005-12-07 21:11 Collective Law_School
The last pass was kind of a bust. Too much of the wrong kind of information. I've created some new ones, which can be seen here.
Once again, I used Tinderbox, this time without getting caught up in being so fancy. Files (very simple export templates, all flashcards, and Tinderbox file) are all here.
Tinderbox was a wonderful data entry tool for all of this. Now that I know the basics of exporting, I had the export templates done in 15 minutes of tinkering.
I did eventually print to index cards. I just copied the questions from the HTML into Word, blew up the font, and did a search and replace to insert page breaks. Then, I used the print export templates in the directory to generate the answers, and I copied those into Word. It took about 15 minutes of formatting (stray newlines creating new pages, overly long explanations needing font shrinkage, etc.) and then the printing ordeal started.
The first batch of index cards flew through the printer; however, the duplexer won't handle them. In fact, it seems to barf on anything stiffer than a plain white piece of general purpose paper. So, then I flipped the pile over, had Word print out backwards, and started...
Except that the cards bent going through the first time, and the printer didn't always grab them because of the way they were angled in, so I had to keep massaging them through.
But, now I have a stack of 122 flash cards. Still have to get inchoate crimes and death penalty stuff into form, and then any material I find I need to add or fix.