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\section{The FlashCards Package}
\subsection{About the FlashCards Package}
The \textsf{FlashCards} package (and note that it is written in CamelCase) allows you to easily create flashcards and then print them on standard sheet-fed business-card stock which is equivalent to Avery 5371.\footnote{This is for North American business-card stock, which is 8.5 $\times$ 11 inches.} (Avery products are pretty expensive, but I can usually find a less expensive off-brand version elsewhere.)
\textsf{FlashCards} offers you a limited set of options, which is just fine, since it's more about the information on these cards, rather than how they look. Flash cards don't need to be fancy, but you can do a certain amount of customization with this package.
The truly nice thing about the \textsf{FlashCards} package is that it automatically sets up the cards for two-sided printing. That is, if the front of your document looks like this:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.6]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (11,4);
\draw (1,1) rectangle (5,3);
\node at (3,2) {{\Huge A}};
\draw (6,1) rectangle (10,3);
\node at (8,2) {{\Huge B}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\noindent{}then the back of your document needs to look like this for the cards to print properly:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.6]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (11,4);
\draw (1,1) rectangle (5,3);
\node at (3,2) {{\Huge B}};
\draw (6,1) rectangle (10,3);
\node at (8,2) {{\Huge A}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
This way, the back of card A and front of card A will appear on opposite sides of the same card.\footnote{This is an incredibly difficult concept for some people to understand. (If you don't beleive me, just ask anyone who's ever worked in a copy shop.) Some people just have a lot of trouble re-orienting three-dimensional ojbects in their mind. I have a funny feeling that these are the people who just never got to build anything when they were children, or who never got to play with building toys like Lego or Tinker Toys.}
\subsection{Modifying the FlashCards Configuration Files}