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Manki - A Markdown to Anki Converter

Installation

  • Clone the repository in a directory of your choice and open a terminal in the respective location.
  • Install the package with pip install -e .

Usage

Create a new project

  • Navigate into a directory in which you want to create a new project folder
  • Execute manki --new my_project or manki -n my_project
  • A new folder will be created which contains several dummy files
    • manki.toml contains all project meta data (see )
    • macros.md contains some default LaTeX macro definitions for MathJax
    • questions.md contains a small selection of example questions.

Compile

  • Navigate into the project directory that contains the manki.toml file.
  • Execute manki (for default Anki-package generation) or manki -f html for generation of a html file.

Manki Configuration

All configurations can be done in the manki.toml file that must exist in the project folder. As the file is read as a TOML file, subsections may be created. The following options can be set:

Option Description Type Example
general.title The title of the project str "My Title"
general.author One or multiple authors str or List[str] "John Doe" or ["John Doe", "Foo Bar"]
general.template The template that shall be used for the generation str "lrt" or "default"
general.preamble A premable that is set as description of the pack str
input.macros The file in which macros are defined str
input.sources The file(s) in which the source files are defined str or List[str] "questions.md" or ["q1.md", "q2.md"]
processor.randomquestions.questions List of questions that should be included randomly in to the decks List[List[str, str]] [ [ "Foo?", "Bar!" ], [ "Bla?", "Blu!" ]]
processor.randomquestions.start_after The minimum number of questions before the first random question is inserted int 2
processor.randomquestions.max_questions Maximum number of random questions int 4