Sorry about the wrapping.  Anyway I tried the replace command you suggested
and it removed all the swishdescription.  Yes, I would rather remove it
during indexing but I do not know how to do it since I do not know anything
about perl programming.


-----Original Message-----
From: moseley@hank.org [mailto:moseley@hank.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:33 AM
To: Roubart Capcap
Cc: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: [SWISH-E] swishdescription


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Roubart Capcap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On some of my PDF files, I have table contents.  Since I use StoreDescription,
part of the table of contents are stored as swishdescription shown below:
> Introduction.......................................................
> i Disclaimer ....................................................................
> However, the length of it exceeds my HTML tables.  Is there a way to set the
wrapping length of the swishdescription?  I am using the Template-Toolkit,
so I was thinking of using the "remove" function to remove the "." but I can not
seem to make it work.  I would appreciate any help you can give.  Thank you.

Not as easily as it should be.  Where "should be" would be something
like this with Template-Toolkit:

    [% swishdescription | replace('(.)\1{3,}', $1$1$1 ) %]

The next best solution would be to write a custom filter for
Template-Toolkit.  perldoc Template::Filters explains how -- it would
require modifying SWISH/TemplateToolkit.pm, but it's not very hard. 
Template Toolkit is very cool.

I should provide the infrastructure to make it easy to add new filters. 
Maybe later today if I get time.

Now, if you are spidering with -S prog while indexing there's a
filter_content option where you could just compress those dots (or any
char as in my example above) while indexing.  That might be a smarter
way to go if you know you always want to suppress those.

There's nothing inside the swish-e C code that currently can do this.

Speaking of wrap, can you turn it on in your mail program? ;)

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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org