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Originally Posted by davidfor
A possible problem is that it has to be an exact match. If there are non-display characters within the word, such as a soft hyphen, the search won't match. Or if for some reason, the word is broken by tags, it won't work. If for some reason the book had:
The search would not find the word "footbridge". And while I would be surprised to see the above code, though only a little, I have seen something like:
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<i>this</i> <i>is</i> <i>in</i> <i>italics</i>
That will look fine, but, searching for "this is in" will not find the above. |
Thank you for that explanation. It was not the case here. But I think it explains why I quite often get a fun result when I press a word to search for in the dictionary. It results in something like this
Your search for word did not give any results. The nearest match is word.
And then follows the description.
