Thread: Using a lexicon / encyclopedia on the Cybook
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Old 11-08-2007, 06:06 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by lindemaximilian View Post
Concerning (a):
With an index, it would have been possible to stroll through the words of a particular letter by using the page turn and make a bookmark when a new letter starts. After that you would be able to start your search at a particular bookmark i.e. letter. Each page turn would advance you by some 25 words, that is the number you normally have for the indexes of mobipocket dictionaries. By reducing the font size it would be possible to increase this number, maybe quite significantly, I have not tried it. By contrast, in the current version of the Gen3, there are only 1 to 3 words per page and tabbing your way page by page through the whole volume or just one letter is virtually impossible.
Is it not possible to make an html page with all the letters on with space between them and use this to lookup the start in the dictionary for a specific letter?

I tried to use this principle to enter word up to four letters and it worked but you selected a letter by selecting a link so you had to press a button 26 times to select a letter in the worst case.
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