How and where do I start to 'create' the second card?

Question

Warning: I am only just getting started with this LaTeX and have no experience in writing this 'code-like' language.

I started on making cards for a boardgame for my pupils. After finally getting 1 card, both question and answer fixed, and the layout being quite ok I am stuck. I have no idea how or where (what command what line etc) to start or create a new card and responding answer.

Kind regards,

Code Sample

\documentclass[a7paper,print,10pt,grid=rear]{kartei}
%Voor info googelen op 'LaTeX kartei'
%a7paper: bepaalt hoe groot de fiches worden.  a6-a7-a8-a9 zijn de opties
%grid: geeft aan of er snijlijnen moeten geprint worden.  
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{icomma}

%\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}%enkel nodig om chemische formules te kunnen gebruiken


%Om te zorgen dat het antwoord in het midden van de kaart komt te staan.  
\newcommand{\antwoord}[1]{
\vspace*{\fill}
\begin{center}
#1
\end{center}
\vspace*{\fill}
}

\newcommand{\vraag}[1]{#1}

\newcommand{\kaart}[2]{
\begin{karte}[Vraag]{\vraag{#1} }
\answer{Antwoord}

\antwoord{#2}

\end{karte}
}

\author{T. Dierckx}

\begin{document}

\kaart{Bereken:

$2^{5}\cdot 2^{2}=$}{$2^{7}=128$}

\end{document}}

Answer 1

To create a new card, just insert following command in your document (i.e. between \begin{document} and \end{document}) and replace <question> and <answer> accordingly: \kaart{<question>}{<answer>}
You need to call this command for each card you want to create.

Here is an example with a second card (see below for detailed explanations):

\documentclass[a7paper,print,10pt,grid=rear]{kartei}
    %Voor info googelen op 'LaTeX kartei'
    %a7paper: bepaalt hoe groot de fiches worden.  a6-a7-a8-a9 zijn de opties
    %grid: geeft aan of er snijlijnen moeten geprint worden.  
    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[dutch]{babel}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amsfonts}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{icomma}

    %Om te zorgen dat het antwoord in het midden van de kaart komt te staan.  
    \newcommand{\antwoord}[1]{
        \vspace*{\fill}
        \begin{center}
            #1
        \end{center}
        \vspace*{\fill}
    }

    \newcommand{\vraag}[1]{
        #1
    }

    \newcommand{\kaart}[2]{
        \begin{karte}[Vraag]
            \vraag{#1}
            \answer{Antwoord}
            \antwoord{#2}
        \end{karte}
    }

    \author{T. Dierckx}

\begin{document}
    \kaart{Bereken: $2^{5}\cdot 2^{2}=$}{$2^{7}=128$}
    \kaart{Bereken: $e^{i\pi}+1=\text{?}$}{$0$}
\end{document}

---

How does your code work?

• First, you define what kind of document/layout you want creating, with some options. LaTeX will thus know which already-implemented rules have to be followed.

  \documentclass[a7paper,print,10pt,grid=rear]{kartei}
  

• Then, you load some so-called packages: they are literally packages that gives you the ability to use new rules (i.e. macro-commands) and that can set up some LaTeX-settings for you.

  \usepackage[<eventually some options>]{<package-name>}
  

• Then, you define your own commands

  \newcommand{\<name-of-the-new-command}[<number-of-arguments]{<definition of what the command does>}
  

• And eventually, given all these settings and informations, you begin to describe what is the content of your document.

  \begin{document}
      <content-of-your-document>
  \end{document}
  

How does the \kaart command work?

You have define in your preamble (all the code from \documentclass to \begin{document}) a command called \kaart. Let see how it works.

• \newcommand{\kaart}: you create a new command named \kaart! It will return an error if a command already has this name.
• [2]: this command has two arguments. Thus, when you want to use this command, you have to write \kaart{<first-argument>}{<second-argument>}.
• { <command-definition> }: what the command does is defined within these curly-brackets.
  • \begin{karte}[Vraag]: it begins a (previously define in kartei.cls file) environment named kaarte with the argument Vraag. This environment will be closed with \end{karte}. -\vraag{#1}: You then call the command \vraag with one argument { <argument>}. #1 means that this argument is actually the <first-argument> you gave as argument of \kaart.
  • \answer{Antwoord}: You call the command \answer with the argument Antwoorkd.
  • \antwoord{#2}: You should have guessed it: you call the command (or function, or macro) \antwoord with one argument, which is <second-argument>, the second argument you gave when you called the \kaart command.

So writing \kaart{<first-argument>}{<second-argument>} is the same than writing

\begin{karte}[Vraag]
    \vraag{<first-argument>}
    \answer{Antwoord}
    \antwoord{<second-argument>}
\end{karte}

But it's shorter... and you can easily re-use it!

Thus, within your document (i.e. between \begin{document} and \end{document}) you can call several times the command \kaart{<question>}{<answer>} as in the example.