According to David Adams:
> I have been looking at synonym matching with htsearch and have been
> customising the list of synonyms to fit my ideas. I modified the text file
> common/synonym and ran htfuzzy to build a new synonym.db
>
> I found that not only were the new synonyms that I had added being acted on,
> but so were the old ones I had deleted! So I offer this tip to those using
> synonym matching:
>
> Delete the file common/synonym.db before you run htfuzzy synonyms.
>
> It seems that htfuzzy *adds* to the database file, rather than re-writing it
> as I assumed.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads-up! Maybe the code should delete
the old database, they way an htdig -i does.
> I want to use synonym matching purely for words with two or more 'correct'
> spellings (eg colour & color,
> medieval & mediaeval, etc.) of English words, and would like to hear from
> anyone with an alternative list of such synonyms.
>
> If anyone wants to see how I propose to handle mis-spellings, then go to
> http://www.soton.ac.uk/ and try searching for "accomodation" or "libary".
Cool! I assume these are static pages you put in manually for common
misspellings. Did you need any special tweaks to the code to get them to
come up first, or to you just use a very high keyword factor? Is there
a trick to get these pages not to show up when the word is spelled
correctly, or are they just given a low score and show up towards the end
of the results? It's interesting that accomodation still has 79 other
hits, apart from the search assistance page - pretty common misspelling.
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