Custom Analyzer Strategy?

[Lee Goddard]

Hi

New to Lucene development, though I have been an indexing user for some 
years, I find a need to develop an analyzer that reads a bespoke-format 
(binary) file. I was wondering:

* Are there tutorials on analyzer development, or (ideally) an example 
custom simple analyzer?

* Is it possible to send the output of one analyzer to another, and if 
so, is it possible to have that chain defined in the configuration of 
Lucene (or Solr...), or would it need to be hard-coded?

Thank you very much
Lee