Unfortunately, The Solr Ref Guide is only editable by committers. In the near future it's going to move to a different platform that will allow you to contribute via pull-request; that will be very nice. In the mean time, your feedback is highly appreciated.
~ David On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:21 PM Timothy Rodriguez (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK) < trodrigue...@bloomberg.net> wrote: > +1, I'll be happy to offer assistance with edits or some of the sections > if needed. We're glad to see this out there. > > From: dev@lucene.apache.org At: 01/09/17 18:03:32 > To: Timothy Rodriguez (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK), dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re:Solr Ref Guide, Highlighting > > Solr 6.4 is the first release to introduce the UnifiedHighlighter as a new > highlighter option. I want to get it documented reasonably well in the > Solr Ref Guide. The Highlighters section is here: Highlighting > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Highlighting> (lets > see if this formatted email expands to the URL when it lands on the list) > > Unless anyone objects, I'd like to rename the "Standard Highlighter" as > "Original Highlighter" in the ref guide. The original Highlighter has no > actual name qualifications as it was indeed Lucene's original Highlighter. > "Standard Highlighter" as a name purely exists as-such within the Solr > Reference Guide only. In our code it's used by "DefaultSolrHighlighter" > which is really a combo of the original Highlighter and > FastVectorHighlighter. DSH ought to be refactored perhaps... but I > digress. > > For those that haven't read CHANGES.txt yet, there is a new "hl.method" > parameter which can be used to pick your highlighter. Here I purposely > chose a possible value of "original" to choose the original Highlighter > (not "standard"). > > I haven't started documenting yet but I plan to refactor the highlighter > docs a bit. The intro page will better discuss the highlighter options and > also how to configure both term vectors and offsets in postings. Then the > highlighter implementation specific pages will document the parameters and > any configuration specific to them. I'm a bit skeptical we need a page > dedicated to the PostingsHighlighter as the UnifiedHighlighter is a > derivative of it, supporting all it's options and more. In that sense, > maybe people are fine with it only being in the ref guide as a paragraph or > two on the UH page describing how to activate it. I suppose it's > effectively deprecated. > > ~ David > -- > Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: > http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com > > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
