Reply to note from "Paul Breeze" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC) Sat, 21 Dec 2019 13:23:52 +0000 Paul, > For example I have been searching for 'utilitarianism' which > throws up a lot of entries. Using TRACK on the first of the main > entries works; on the tenth entry I am left midway through an > entry for TAIT, A. F.; using it on the last entry, meanwhile > simply leaves me at the start of the Encyclopaedia. Yes, I encounter this too, and so far have not been able to grok what's happening. If you want to do these searches in XyWrite, your best bet, I think, is to open Brittanica in BigED and use BigSE[B] "search_term"<Helpkey> . > I have a TXT copy of the Diary of Samuel Pepys but if I search > that, TRACK does not take me to the correct place in the text. I > know that you spent some time editing the other files so that > they worked with BIGED. Is there something I can do to PEPYS.TXT > to make it more reliable? You should not have to edit TeXT files. I downloaded the Pepys text from Gutenberg and searched it as is. In my quick testing I found that TRACK reliably took me to the line immediately above the search term. > Britannica is not the ideal text file to be searching in > this way. True. Better to use a program that creates an index of the file(s) to be searched. I really like DocFetcher. It's blazingly fast both for index creation (a one-time exercise for static files like Brittanica) and for searching. It also handles a wide variety of file types, which is invaluable. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx