Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:52:19 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta FreeBSD search engine Message-ID: <3D2B3EF3.D2B1E72B@centtech.com> References: <200207091637.JAA25232@eskimo.com> <3D2B218A.828433E4@centtech.com> <1026240902.250.135.camel@cocaine>
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Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > If you would include the language in the index, you could give back all > languages for a given document, e.g. > > Manual Vinum Bootstrapping > ... sd name home.p.s drive YouCrazy plex home.p len hl driveoffset ho ... > http://www.sprawler.com/doc1/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/manualboot.html - 12k - [HIGHLIGHTED] > (de . en . fr . gr . etc) I like this - good idea.. Now, to try to implement it.. :) I'll try to come up with something along this line.. > I'm just thinking out loud about the possibilities... rather than about > the time you have available. Great job so far! ;) Thanks! Thinking out loud is good - even if I can't implement everything right now, I'll eventually get it in there (hopefully). > The problem with a drop-down box with the available languages or something > along those lines is that the documentation in other languages isn't > always complete. If people select some obsure language that has only a few > documents translated, it's likely their search won't turn up any results. > So to be sure they get all relevant information, they will only use > English. Or possibly complain about the lack of information, if they > don't. Good point.. I think most people ignore search options for the most part anyhow, and use default most of the time. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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