Of course, using quotes around “source connectors” does enforce phrase searching. But you’re right that having that become more automatic as in Google searches would be wonderful.
As I remember DocBook WebHelp ends up with Apache Lucene as its search engine, and Lucene is quite good. But, alas, the world has gotten very used to Dr. Google. > On Nov 10, 2016, at 7:09 AM, Camille Bégnis <[email protected]> wrote: > > We've been facing the issue too, and any tip will be appreciated. > > The issue is that people are used to Google Search, and doing that on the > client side is not easy ;-) > > Cheers, > > NeoDoc > Camille Bégnis > Gérant > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Tél: 04.42.52.24.20 > http://www.neodoc.fr/ <http://www.neodoc.fr/> > 789, rue de la gare > F-13770 Venelles > > Le 10/11/2016 à 13:02, Janice Manwiller a écrit : >> I use DocBook source with the docbkx Maven plugin to generate PDFs, WebHelp, >> and some HTML. >> >> The WebHelp search is a source of frustration, mostly because it does not >> support phrase searches. So if you search for "source connectors", it looks >> for topics that have either the word source or the word connectors. While >> topics that contain both words do bubble to the top, the search does not >> specifically look for the phrase "source connectors", where both words are >> together in that order. >> >> Has there been any effort to improve the search? Has anyone else implemented >> a custom search that supports phrase searches? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Janice >> >> -- >> Janice Manwiller >> Principal Technical Writer >> Sqrrl Data, Inc. >> www.sqrrl.com <http://www.sqrrl.com/> | @SqrrlData >
