Document Classes ⇒ Customize Flashcards Class

[egan]

Hello guys, I am really new to the world of LaTeX (and TeX), but so far I am loving it!

One of the more serious things I have been trying to do is to make flashcards. I discovered the flashcards package which is indeed very convenient. Yet I cannot figure out how to make the flashcards smaller. I plan on printing on regular, American paper (letterpaper), cutting the cards manually.

I copied /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/flashcards/avery5371.cfg to see about hacking around. I changed the \cardrows, \cardcolumns, \cardheight, and \cardwidth properties to 10, 4, 1.0in, and 1.2in respectively. In my tex source files I modified the text size to fit on smaller cards. Compiling it results in the cards being bunched up on one side of the paper with no space in between.

I am indeed very new this, and I have had no experience with actual typesetting (I always used to use Open Office), so I might have just chosen incredibly stupid dimensions, or I may not know the correct way to do things such as this.

In any case, I would greatly appreciate any help with my problem; I am eager to learn more. I haven't actually decided the number of cards I want per-page, so if someone comes up with reasonable dimensions I would be okay with that.

[egan]

Upon a quick overview of what I want to do, I saw that I did indeed make a stupid mistake dimension-wise. My new parameters are:

4x10 cards, 1.0x1.75in

I kept the borders the same because I don't really know what \topoffset, \oddoffset, and \evenoffset do. The cards are a bit close to each other, and the margins seem a bit superfluous so I would still like to see if there is a way to space the cards out more. I tried changing the border offsets but it didn't react the way I was expecting.