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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I disagree about the entry length. I looked at the WordNet Mobi dictionary. The average length was at least twice as long as the link.
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Oh, but 2 is approximately 1 ;-). I bet a full index for 100M Russian-English dictionary is going to be at least 10M and my gut feeling tells me that's about 10 times more than practical.
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Also, while the entries of a dictionary are alphabetical, having a list of just headwords without the entries means you can look at and discard more entries at a time. This will make finding a word (with uncertain spelling) faster.
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You can think of my proposal as search tree (althouh very shallow). I think it is better for searches than flat array in almost all cases.
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Question: would it be possible to build the headword index into the toc.ncx file? If so, could it behave like an index?
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Per spec, I do not see how, but I'd rather someone else confirm it.