[sword-devel] Strong's Greek & Hebrew, and indexed word search

[Justin Long]

Sorry, can't, don't know the language. If it were web-based, I could do it
in a heartbeat. I work primarily in PHP with a smattering of Perl.

-----Original Message-----
From: sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org
[mailto:sword-devel-admin@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Chris Little
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:15 AM
To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Strong's Greek & Hebrew, and indexed word
search



Justin Long wrote:

> ___________________________________
> Justin writes:
> I never thought to search for a Strong's number, and I am technically
> literate
> (a programmer for over 15 years). I doubt must non-technically-literate
> people
> will. They expect a Hebrew/Greek concordance based either on KJV or ASV.
So
> if
> that's the way you're going to implement it, then you should make it plain
> in the
> search box that you can search for a Strong's number. I wouldn't put it in
> the
> manual because many people don't read it.

Searching on strong's numbers needs to be improved still because there
are some interface problems that were mentioned in a previous message to
the list.

If people won't read the manual... remind me again why we should care
about helping them?


> Justin writes:
> If indexing doesn't improve the speed that much then it isn't good
indexing!
> Seriously, an index search *should* beat a forced search hands down.
That's
> why
> Godspeed could do a full text search of the Bible in less than a second,
at
> least in its original incarnation, even on a 80286 (which is where I ran
> it).
> I have indexed databases at work that can scan over 2 million records in
> seconds;
> the same thing in full-text search would take over an hour.

I don't think anyone is arguing that indexes would be a nice addition,
but they do need to work with the current API's exposed interface.  Are
you volunteering to take this project on?

--Chris


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