highlight of a span within a span

[george karystianis]

Hi,

just a quick question:

i have this sentence:

prevalence of diabetes is 200

i have written some rules to highlight diabetes but i want also to highlight 200.
I was wondering if i could do the following:

defSpanType X=:
...eq('prevalence') eq('of')[ eq('diabetes') ]eq('is')...;
defSpanType Y =:
...[re('[0-9]')]...;
defSpanType Y =:
...[@x @y)]...;

It seems though that it doesn't work. Is there a way to highlight two different words through one span? Apparently my way is not working. Is it because i am putting two different spans together and minorthird considers them to be right next to each other? I have been trying quite some time to do this.

Any help will be deeply appreciated!

George

[Frank Lin]

An annotation must be a contiguous span of text.

[george karystianis]

thanks