[sword-devel] Comming soon: new improved sword searching

[Joel Mawhorter]

On September 8, 2002 08:59, Chris Little wrote:
> This is somewhat impractical as we do not store paragraph information
> except in the text itself if at all.  A great number of our Bibles do not
> indicate any kind of paragraph division. Furthermore I've never heard
> anyone suggest that paragraph divisions were inspired.  I would certainly
> never consider them as such.

Are they even in the original (or at least as close as we have to original) 
manuscripts?

> It would be nice to allow searches that can return multi-line chunks like
> "Mt 1:1-5" with a user-set variable for the maximal chunk size to return.

I agree that this would be a nice feature. However it is really a frontend 
issue. The search will return a set of keys and the frontends can grab as few 
or as many verses as they want to actually display (this is currently the 
case).

Joel