Hi Dan,

Sorry to write this long post at this moment. I know you are busy in
kicking up 3.0.

Long time ago, I've a plan in mind to build a dictionary site,
providing users a bilingual English-Chinese translation of jargons or
terms in many categories from different books (they are all legal).
There are only terms and their Chinese translations, no further
definitions or explanations.

These jargons are all very unique categories like coral names, herb
names, mathematic history terms, and so on. So I can help the
translators in my country when they meet rare words, those words may
be already translated by other translators in other books, and they
can use this site to search.

Collecting the bilingual English-Chinese translation of jargons from
already published books making the translators help them selfs and
each other. This will be a cooperation site.

You can see my prototype here (yes, I built it by BoltWire+Highlight
plugin):

http://txtray.net/jargon/

Currently I put only 200 entries (from three books) on the site for
testing. It will be added to 50,000-80,000 entries while go live. For
the number of this quantity, I can't set one page per entry. I have to
set one page per book which may containing hundreds of entries.

This is the reason why I use highlight plugin. It can exactly find and
retrieve the result lines of searched terms.

However, I got problem here. I found it may be easy for anyone to copy
the whole jargon database.

Say, for the sake of Chinese characters searching, I have to turn the
"words=" parameter from "true" to "false". Then if one search single
alphabet from "a" to "z", he can easily get the whole entries in the
database.

To avoid this I had to set the search parameter using default
"words=true", which means Chinese characters may not possible to be
searched.

This is a dilemma. Disable the Chinese searching, or allowing Chinese
but face the risk that the whole database can be easily copied.

All I can think is opening the "words=" parameter from "true" to
"false", but limit the quantity of results to show. One can search a
single "a", but he can see only 20 results of maybe 5,000 data found.
Therefor he has to search more accurate word to avoid too many
results.

But highlight plugin does not support "count=n" parameter. Is it
possible to add this function to highlight plugin?

Btw, the core "count=n" parameter seems not work in a form. If I put
this in a form:

[session search "text='{=query}'"]

It would work. But if I put this:

[session search "text='{=query}' count='10'"]

It would output nothing.

Cheers,
linly
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