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Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin
That's a legitimate point of view, of course. The problem is that building index on the device would be slow and drain the battery and building it elsewhere would mean that special software needs to be used to transfer the book to the device. I think that support for indexing is just too central for a dictionary to leave it out.
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I only wrote that because I misunderstood how Mobipocket handled indexes. I was also hoping this thread would die, but oh well.
I think it's safe to assume that the indexes will be made during the ebook creation process. I would suggest that each index in an ebook be in a separate file(s). Given that Epub is basically zipped HTML, an index will likely consist of 1 or more links (that lead to other places in the ebook).
I think we should consider copying the behavior of Mobipocket indexes. A link in the title index doesn't lead to the respective title. Instead, it leads to the beginning of the entry containing the title. (I also agree with Igorsk about the need for multiple head words.) In the keyword index, each keyword will listed once, and link to a separate file consisting of links to each of the entries containing the keyword. The links won't lead to the keyword, but to the beginning of the entry.