mikelove said:
Sorry, is the problem that the cards are being duplicated (which was what I thought you wanted), or is it that you're still getting weird display / extra characters in the Pinyin fields? The latter problem wouldn't have anything to do with the duplication - it would mean that the data that you're importing is screwed up in some way, in which case we just need to fix that (perhaps you could PM me a sample of your data file).
My cards contain two fields that have been customized:
- the pinyin field may contain an extra character (the book uses an asterisk to designate "items which are restricted in use"; I replace by a # sign because originally I could not get the asterisk to display properly. In retrospect, I wonder if this was not the same problem that I am seeing now)
- the "card text" field contains only a subset of the translation of a character or word (the one for the chapter)
So, for example (sample from one of my files):
Code:
// Beginning Reader/Unit V/Lesson 27
饭[飯]\t fan4\t ① cooked rice; ② food, a meal
馆[館]\t guan3 #\t establishment
或[或]\t huo4 #\t ① either or; ② perhaps
者[者]\t zhe3\t (verb suffix indicating doer of an action)
朝代[朝代]\t chao2dai4\t dynastic period, dynasty
吃饭[吃飯]\t chi1 fan4\t to eat (food)
吃饭馆(儿)[吃飯館(兒)]\t chi1 fan4guan3(r5)\t to eat in a restaurant (colloquial)
Note: the lines above have been edited for display on the forum:
- I explicitly added a \t here to indicate the location of a tab in my file
- I added spaces to align field on this web page. There are no extra space characters following a tab in my flashcard files.
After I have typed in the flashcard for a lesson, I copy the file to Pleco via iTunes and import the flashcards in Pleco.
On the iPhone: No problem, the flashcards appear with custom pinyin and "card text" fields as I entered them
On the iPad: My custom pinyin and "card text" fields are ignored and those from the default dictionary are displayed instead. However, if I erase my entire database and reimport all, the cards appear properly. The problem will come back the next time I import cards for another lesson, though.