how is this done in epub format?

rupert

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, renaud gaudin <rgaudin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Full text search engine was not left out for performance reasons but for
> practical ones.
> Yes, we don't want people to generate the index on their phone. Except for
> tiny tiny zim files, it would be too much CPU, battery and time consuming.
> But we do want to add full text search to Android.
> It could work today but the search index is a (large) folder so it would be
> a pain to setup.
> As soon as we integrate both the ZIM file and the index in a single file,
> we'll enable full text search on the Android App.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> renaud
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dmitry Brant, 01/10/2014 01:07:
>>>
>>> Looking at the Kiwix app for Android, it doesn't seem to have full-text
>>> search within articles (unless I missed it). I assume that this was left
>>> out of the Android version for performance reasons.
>>
>>
>> Don't assume, ask Emmanuel (cc Offline-l).
>> If I understand correctly, you're talking of small selections of articles
>> (hundreds or thousands). Making an index for tens of GB of text takes hours,
>> so Kiwix doesn't always make one (on desktop, you usually download the
>> pre-made index). But for few articles, the problem is easier (and one can
>> also reduce compression).
>> In general, I have no idea what it means that "zero team starts to think
>> about pre-loaded content": sounds a lot like reinventing Kiwix, which would
>> be a disastrous idea. :)
>>
>> Nemo
>>
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