Practice Lines

Practice lines contain the material presented by Kx Toolbox for practice.

A basic practice line begins with a dash followed by a space:

- Hola.
- Buenos días.
- ¿Cómo estás?

A Practice Set can contain one practice line or many.

Answers

A practice line can include an answer:

- ¿Cómo estás? [ans: "Estoy muy bien."]

The text before the bracketed instruction is the practice content.

The ans instruction supplies corresponding answer content.

Multiple Instructions

A line can contain several instructions:

- Buenos días. [front:waiter, v:H, back:customer, ans: "Buenos días."]

Instructions inside the brackets are separated by commas.

Depending on the instruction, line metadata can control such features as:

• answers
• languages
• voices
• speakers
• pronunciation
• visuals
• scenes

Lines Without a Dash

Most Practice Sets use dashed practice lines. The existing corpus also contains prose-oriented Practice Sets where content appears without a leading dash.

Kx Markdown therefore distinguishes the content of a Practice Set from the optional metadata that can be attached to individual lines.

Dashed and Undashed Content

A dash is the conventional way to identify an individual practice item:

- Hola.
- Buenos días.
- ¿Cómo estás?

Kx Markdown can also contain undashed content.

For example:

Esta mañana me desperté temprano porque quería caminar por el centro de la ciudad.
El cielo estaba despejado y hacía un poco de frío.
Primero fui a una cafetería pequeña cerca de mi casa.

This makes Practice Sets useful for more than short vocabulary or question-and-answer cards. They can also contain sentences, prose, reading material, and other language content.

Metadata can still be attached to individual content lines when supported:

Esta mañana me desperté temprano porque quería caminar por el centro de la ciudad. [v:H]
El cielo estaba despejado y hacía un poco de frío. [v:L]