According to Tony Crockford: > > 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 > > That makes sense, I suppose I can do something clever in the template to > add ellipses to the metadescription
You could, by why would you want to? The "..." implies "and so on", so it's appropriate to use it when there's more to come before or after the "...". But if the description starts from the beginning, it would be misleading/confusing to force the addition of ellipses there. Forgive me for saying this, but I think this sort of ornamental punctuation would be right along the lines of the "quote marks for decoration" that Dave Barry lampooned in an article several years ago. -- 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
