[htdig-dev] can ht://Dig exclude headings from excerpts?

[John C. <bi...@um...>]

Hi all,

I know this may not find anyone; it looks as though dev on ht://Dig  
stopped around 2004. However, we've been using this great product  
since the late 90's and still find it very useful.

Just a question: is there a way to get ht://Dig to exclude headings  
text from excerpts in the search results? We use meta description tags  
for our high-value pages, which works wonderfully. However, for our  
other pages, the headings (which are obviously necessary on the pages)  
tend to muck up the excerpts. For an example, see the example result:

ITCS: How do I use one of the e-mail packages supported at U-M  
(mail.umich.edu, Pine, Mulberry, Eudora)?

at

<http://www.itcs.umich.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=e-mail;page=2>

Were the <h2> tag content not repeated in the excerpt, there'd be a  
lot more room for the answer to be shown there.

Google search results exclude heading tag contents from results  
excerpts; I didn't see a way in the ht://Dig attributes to do the same  
thing, but I'm hoping there's some solution.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

John Cady
University of Michigan - ITCS