Re: [htdig] html tags being translated when displayed in excerpt

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Tony Crockford:
> > > my fault for copying the original without understanding it...
> >
> > Which original?  The distributed common/long.html uses $(EXCERPT).
> > Do we have some files under http://www.htdig.org/files/contrib that
> > do otherwise?
> 
> Sorry, I was messing with $&(METADESCRIPTION) and when I went back to
> $&(EXCERPT) I copied the $&(TITLE) Syntax instead of watching what I
> should have been doing and using $(EXCERPT)

Ah, OK.

> Strangly $&(METADESCRIPTION) doesn't seem to work on WinXP (my Dev
> environment) but works fine on my ISP. (nothing in WinXP -
> metadescription as expected on my ISP)

Which version of htsearch are you using under WinXP?  METADESCRIPTION
is a recent addition (3.1.6, or 3.2.0b4 snapshots).

> I've reverted to use_meta_description: true  and $(EXCERPT) but I'm
> still trying to work out why start_ellipses: ..." won't work with
> use_meta_description.
> 
> Most baffling...

The start_ellipses are only used when the first part of the excerpt
is truncated, and the end_ellipses are used when the excerpt is
truncated at the end.  When use_meta_description or excerpt_show_top
or no_excerpt_show_top is in effect, the excerpt (or meta description)
is shown from the beginning, so there's no start_ellipses added.

See http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#start_ellipses
and http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#excerpt_length

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)