I still think normalisation of what is searched for would be good, in that it basically means the user sees the results that he is looking for.
I understand the concern for backwards compatibility and perhaps that means frontends should be able to turn this normalisation off. But looking ahead, for new front-ends, front-ends that can make rebuilding indexes part of the upgrade to a new version and for all new downloads of frontends, this has to be a benefit. Not normalising, seems to me like perpetuating an existing problem into all new downloads from this day forth. Or am I missing something? Chris On 3 March 2013 12:53, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another possibly related normalisation problem which BPBible at least has > an open issue about is Caesar vs. Cæsar. Theoretically I guess you want > either search to match both forms. I don't know how Lucene etc. deals with > this (if at all). > > Jon > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:48 AM, David Haslam <dfh...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> In the KJV module, if you want to search for [say] the hyphenated name >> "Maher–shalal–hash–baz", you first have to be aware that this module uses >> the ndash in place of the hyphen. >> >> btw. It's not so easy to enter the ndash from a keyboard, and probably >> even >> harder in an Android tablet or mobile. >> >> If you use ordinary hyphen/minus for the search key hyphen for this >> module, >> you don't find anything with "Exact phrase". >> If you use "Multi-word", you do find "Maher" highlighted in the found >> verse. >> (e.g. using Xiphos). >> >> For modules in general, however, the user cannot usually know in advance >> whether hyphenated words use the ndash, the hyphen or something else. >> >> Has anyone else looked into this aspect of the search feature? >> >> David >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Searching-for-hyphenated-words-tp4652016.html >> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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