Avery,

the output format of Swish-e is of the kind:
857      /home/ghill/swish/dir5/records/55.html "Test file" 142
^^^         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^    ^^^
ranking         file location                     title    file size


One solution could be that you put in the title the few sentences that you
want to be returned in the results. By title I mean what is contained
between the tags <title> </title>. However, some users have found some
limitations on the number of char's that they can use (~500 check on the
discussion list), so you might also want to think about some manipulation
of the swish-e returned files by some other program before displaying the
results.

Giulia

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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Avery Buffington wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to swish-e (2 days) I've got it up and running and I really like
> it, but is there a way to catalog parts of the pages it indexed. For
> instance if the title is "How to use swish-e" can swish return a few
> sentences about the content of the document?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> 
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