Re: [htdig] how to include specific short "words" in index?

[Patrick R. <pg...@vt...>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:17:58PM -0600, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Patrick Robinson:
> > [htdig-3.1.5 on Solaris 2.6]
> > Is there a way to include one or more specific "short words" -- that is,
> > words that are shorter than minimum_word_length -- in htdig's index?
> > 
> > Specifically, my problem is that I want to index and be able to find
> > documents containing the term "4-H", even though:
> > (a) my minimum_word_length is set to the default of 3,
> > (b) "4-H" contains a dash, which is punctuation (I'm using the default
> > valid_punctuation string), so it would be indexed as "4h", if it weren't
> > too short to be indexed.
> 
> You could take the hyphen out of valid_punctuation and put it in
> extra_word_characters instead, but that may not be what you want in
> the general case.  Unfortunately, there's no way of singling out
> specific words for special treatment.

That's what I was afraid of.  The removal of the hyphen when indexing
and searching isn't so much of a concern.  I mostly wanted to be able
to include "4-h" (or "4h") in the db.  I suppose the other "solution"
would be to reduce minimum_word_length to 2, and then add all the other
2 letter words which occur to bad_word_list.  A bit of a maintenance
headache, but maybe unavoidable in this case.

Thanks,

-- 
Patrick Robinson
AHNR Info Technology, Virginia Tech
pg...@vt...