mikelove said:jyh said:So this "arbitrary text" could/would include a sort of "page break" to force creation of a third or fourth side to the flashcard?
It would basically just let you put something other than Pinyin in the Pinyin field; since you can configure Pleco to reveal any combination of the character / pinyin / definition fields, and reveal them separately, you'd simply create a flashcard list with the format:
character<tab>@Heisig keyword<tab>Heisig mnemonic
I guess I was not clear in my post from a few months back (http://www.plecoforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2461#p20782). That's in fact exactly what I was asking for.
mikelove said:I've been going back and forth about whether or not to approach UH Press (which publishes Heisig) or Tuttle (which publishes Matthews' "Learning Chinese Characters") about licensing one of these character mnemonic books officially - we already have relationships with both publishers.
The problem of course is that flashcards being exportable to text files, both editors would certainly be concerned about illegal copies circulating. Certainly, in the case of the Heisig, there couldn't be any kind of "locking" of the cards since the user would need to edit them to write in their own mnemonic story for each character.
mikelove said:LCC however is challenging to present in Pleco because of all of the embedded images (though that's something we need to work on anyway), and Heisig seems rather controversial in general.
IMHO, the controversy about Heisig is both deserved (I have a long list of criticisms of the book, starting of course with pronunciation being avoided) and also due to many of the critics misunderstanding the book's purpose (it's not for nothing that the book's title is "Remembering [trad/simpl.] Hanzi" and not "Learning...").