Flash cards for Ancient Greek vocabulary practice, covering the 524 most common words in the Ancient Greek corpus as collected by Dickinson College.
Available in two forms (so far): a single PDF for double-sided printing on card stock, or two PDFs, one each for front and back, set up to print two sides by printing all fronts, then all backs.
Use card stock for producing sets of 3.5" x 2" cards (which is what these are) ten to a page, in five rows of two, with the margins set to make a regular US letter page 8 1/2" x 11" (1/2" margins at top and bottom and 3/4" inch on either size). In the US, most office supply stores have these, in a name brand and/or a store brand. This set of flaschards will take up 53 pages, front and back, for 524 cards plus a few jokers.
You could also conceivably make these by printing on plain paper or card and then trimming down. (A version with printed guidelines for cutting could be easily produced, were this found to be helpful.)
In any case, use an appropriate paper for your printer. The cards are all black and white so no color setting is necessary.
You don't want to run your valuable stock through the printer until you are confident you can do it without a lot of waste. The best way to do this is with a dry run of a few pages (as few as three) on plain paper. This applies if you are feeding by hand (learning the orientation and how to flip) or even more if your printer supports an autofeed.
So follow the directions in Step 3 a couple of times with the cheap stuff and check the results before running on the pricey stuff.
Note especially that many printers by default will rescale a page. This is a bad thing. Be sure your printer is set to print at Actual Size or 100%, no scaling, or it won't make the right size cards (especially bad if printing on pre-cut stock).
Additionally, note there is a PDF variant with dotted rules showing where the cards should be scored. Other than having the dotted rules the files are the same.
You are in luck. The file you want is Dickinson-core-cards.pdf. Be sure and set the printer to flip along the short (top/bottom) edge: you can lose a lot of paper or stock flipping the more usual way (on the long edge).
If you don't wish to print card stock in duplex (who does), the same thing can be done by hand. The top cards on the front side are the bottom cards on the back side.
You can achieve the same effect on card stock using a printer that does not print two-sided- a full set of cards, flipping vertically - by printing the fronts on a stack of pages, then flipping vertically and printing the backs on the other side.
The same data in two separate files can be found in Dickinson-core-card-fronts.pdf and Dickinson-core-card-backs.pdf.
Print the fronts. Then take your stack of pages and flip it vertically (as a stack). Print the backs. You may need to adjust your printer settings. Again, testing with plain paper is advisable before laying toner on the fancy bond. (Step 2!) In these files as well, the cards are inverted on the back page (to go bottom up), so fronts and backs line up for a page flipped vertically, on the short edge (which will be, once cut into cards, the long-top-bottom edge).
The data for these cards was acquired from Dickinson College's amazing collection of resources for language study specifically the Dickinson Core Vocabulary. Please check out this impressive set of resources. This vocabulary resource alone can hardly be over-valued, while the site as a whole is a vindication (were any needed) of the "Digital Humanities" (so called or by any name). The republication of this resource in flashcard form is an example of share-alike: please (re)use it in that spirit.
Other files in this repo represent intermediate transformation steps in the production pipeline between the web resource, and the printed (PDFed) page. Basically it's a simple set of rearrangements, with intermediate results shown, starting from the HTML delivered by the project (which conveniently does all the Unicode handling) and ending with PDF. The first step extracts and cleans up the data. A second step arranges all this into an ordered set of fronts and backs. A third step does the rendering. In a next version, steps 2 and 3 might be reversed. (So first rendering the cards as cards, then page/layout.) A commercial FO processor (formatting engine) was used in addition to a transformation engine (XSLT processor), because that's what it took to get the fonts. Presumably the same set of stylesheets could produce cards for Ancient Greek Vocab from the Dickinson College sources in languages besides English (several are already available) -- though as always, YMMV. (In particular, the sizing of elements are the cards all done relative to what the English glosses require: you might need more space or less.)
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