wulfgar2 wrote:

Specifically, I'm wondering if the first three Core 2k/6k decks cover core 2000, and the last 4 decks cover 2001-6000.

Yup, that's how it is. I'm using those decks, they're good if you just tweak the layout to your liking.

Ok - I just opened the Core 2k/6k Intermediate 1 deck, and the questions are kana only. I am only interested in kanji questions. Do I have the wrong deck, or am I supposed to do something to it in order to make it useful?

I tried that, but failed. There are 3 templates - reading, dictation and closed. All of the facts are under the dictation template. I couldn't figure out how to get facts under the reading template. I browsed and highlighted all the facts, went to "change model" but the changes wouldn't take place. Is there an "apply" button at the bottom of that window? My mac cuts off the bottom, so I can't access it if there is.

You don't need to generate any new cards (unless you want different cards for just words and just sentences, or something like that). Just edit the layout of the dictation template where all the current cards are (or edit whatever template they are atm, you can always redownload the deck if you need to).

To edit the layout:
Go to Settings -> Deck
Pick the correct model (most likely Core2k_6k), click edit
Select the template your cards are in (dictation?), click "Card layout"
edit layouts, ??, profit

I'm using something like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15357652/core_layout.png

question wrote:

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 40px; color: #000000; white-space: pre-wrap;">{{{Expression}}}</span>

answer wrote:

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 30px; color: #000000; white-space: pre-wrap;">{{{Reading}}}

{{{Sentence - English}}}
{{{Sentence - Audio}}}
{{{Vocabulary - Kanji}}} -- {{{Vocabulary - English}}}
{{Vocabulary - POS}}

</span>

Furigana doesn't work unless the model of your cards is "Japanese".
If you want to do this, create new model (Settings -> Deck) and add approppriate fields to it (card layout -> fields).
Then go to browser (Ctrl+f), pick the cards you want to switch (ctrl+a), then actions -> switch model, and make sure all the fields are changed correctly.
(some names might be off since I'm not using english anki, but you'll probably get the idea)
If there's an easier way for the furigana fix, I don't know it.


If you need more info / help with anki, you should probably head to their google groups instead of these forums.

I had the same weird error the other day... in a very isolated instance.

In my Japanese model deck, I had tried to copy the usual furigana forumula into my "expression" field (ex.: 今日[きょう]は 元気[げんき]です。) and the result was all hiragana.

I then took out the formatting and entered it again normally (ex.:今日は元気です) and it looked fine. weird.

other than not putting furigana formatting in the expression field of your japanese model deck, I don't know what to tell you. perhaps you should take it up with the programmer Damien Elmes on his Anki support google group. He is pretty good about answering questions...

Last edited by dtcamero (2012 April 04, 12:23 pm)

Ok, I asked about this in another thread. Apparently there used to be 7 decks for "Core 2k/6k". Now there is only one. So if I want to get 3001-6000, do I need to pull in the full Core 2k/6k deck and delete the first 3000 cards? I'm not very good at Anki 2 - can someone suggest the best way to do this? I'm only interested in the Japanese sentence/kana & english cards.

Haha. I'm paranoid because I've done this with other decks in Anki2 and ended up deleting a lot more than I intended, from the deck I was working on and other decks too. But I'll give it a try. Do you happen to know if the cards are in the same order as they were back when there were 7 parts?