[sword-devel] request

Joachim Ansorg sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:46:02 +0000


Hi!

> I want thesauri to be included (dictionaries for similar words) in sword.
> Why? Imagine a search for similar words. The user's search word list is
> expanded by substituting each word with itself and its synonyms.
> Might be very useful.

Yes, I'd like to have it. But the queston is where to get the thesauri 
databas.

> This would not be a frontend issue IMO, because the thesauri have to be
> collected for the different languages.
> And this would require another entry in the module conf files: Language.

The Language entry sould be added in 1.52 IMO because we could then use 
things like native booknames for modules, automatically font and charset 
selection and other nice things :)
I'd volunteer to add it.

> What do you think?
>
> Martin

--Joachim