Done. Thanks ;) On Dec 28, 2007 1:41 PM, J Trahair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my experience, having a limit of a particular number of anythings per > something, eg. components per compound word is always a mistake, whether > it's the number of payments allowed to pay an invoice, the number of > children per parent, the number of cars per family, pets per owner, etc. > There's always one that has one too many. And lots of them have only one or > two. Go for the 'mini'-table. > > Jonathan Trahair > I'm going to build a translation s/w and I'd like some advice. Many > languages have compound words. I'd like to build a table that shows the > component words. However, it depends on the compound word as to how many > components it has! Now, I could take a "safe" guess and limit it to, say, > 4 > words. But then I'm wasting a lot of storage. So I thought I'd spawn a > mini-table for each compound word. Is that the best way to handle this? > TIA, > Victor >
