General ⇒ flashcards

[loesung]

Hello!

I use a package to make flashcards which has the formatting \card{#1}{#2}, where #1 and #2 represent the front and back side. The package works great.

I like to block out text, so I have made newcommands \frontcard, which blocks out the text using highlighting or underlining and makes the text white, and \backcard, which is essentially a dummy command that replaces frontcard. For example, I would have to write \card{The chancellor of Germany is \frontcard{Angela Merkel}}{The chancellor of Germany is \backcard{Angela Merkel}}.

What I would like to reduce 2 newcommands to one command, as writing two commands is a little redundant.

I cant think of an easy way to do this though, because of the arbitrary number of blank fields (2 or more). So something like:

\newcard{The chancellor of \blank{Germany} is \blank{Angela Merkel}}


I was thinking how i could accomplish this; maybe with the ifthen package or etoolbox package? So, if im in #1 do this command, if im in #2 then do the other command. However I can't figure out how to implement this exactly. Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance!



Loesung

[localghost]

Just for information to other users for awareness of possibly already existing solutions. The question has also been posted to {TeX} SX (with an accepted answer).

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