According to Tony Crockford: > > > my fault for copying the original without understanding it... > > > > Which original? The distributed common/long.html uses $(EXCERPT). > > Do we have some files under http://www.htdig.org/files/contrib that > > do otherwise? > > Sorry, I was messing with $&(METADESCRIPTION) and when I went back to > $&(EXCERPT) I copied the $&(TITLE) Syntax instead of watching what I > should have been doing and using $(EXCERPT)
Ah, OK. > Strangly $&(METADESCRIPTION) doesn't seem to work on WinXP (my Dev > environment) but works fine on my ISP. (nothing in WinXP - > metadescription as expected on my ISP) Which version of htsearch are you using under WinXP? METADESCRIPTION is a recent addition (3.1.6, or 3.2.0b4 snapshots). > I've reverted to use_meta_description: true and $(EXCERPT) but I'm > still trying to work out why start_ellipses: ..." won't work with > use_meta_description. > > Most baffling... The start_ellipses are only used when the first part of the excerpt is truncated, and the end_ellipses are used when the excerpt is truncated at the end. When use_meta_description or excerpt_show_top or no_excerpt_show_top is in effect, the excerpt (or meta description) is shown from the beginning, so there's no start_ellipses added. See http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#start_ellipses and http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#excerpt_length -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ 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
