According to Stefan Nehlsen: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > According to Stefan Nehlsen: > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:06:24PM -0500, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > > > The big problem > > > > with external parsers is they don't parse words consistently in the > > > > manner that the internal parsers do, and they don't respond to changes > > > > in the config file. E.g., if you drop minimum_word_length from 3 to > > > > 2, you still won't get 2-letter words from the external parser because > > > > of the hardcoded 3 in there. It also won't look at valid_punctuation, > > > > extra_word_characters, or any other attribute that controls parsing. > > > > > > ok -- this is true -- but this was not really my problem. > > until yesterday - I turned on allow_numbers, changed valid_punctuation and > extra_word_characters and forgot to add digits to my split pattern. :-)
Ahh! Well there you go. With an external converter, you don't need to worry about split patterns. All the word splitting is done internally by htdig, under control of the config attributes. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
