For the sake of keeping this on-list, I include your prior e-mail.
You can certainly include these characters as word characters using
the extra_word_characters attribute:
<http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#extra_word_characters>
However, it may be just as easy to redesign your font depending on
your motivation, etc.
But yes, I would guess that you'd want to work out a mapping using
the "accent" fuzzy match, including for your convention. (BTW, a flat
"bar" as an accent is called a macron IIRC.)
--
-Geoff Hutchsion
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
At 6:51 PM -0800 2/19/01, Michael Olds wrote:
>Again thank you for your reply and attention.
>These are the ones replaced. I am afraid not "mostly" other characters with
>accents. (The font was obviously not designed to be useful as a normal
>font).
>
>¡ ¢ £ ? ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ¿ À ¯ ° ± " " ´ µ ¶ · ¸ '
>º » ¼ ½ ¾ Á Â
>
>At this point I start to think I am imposing, but with the idea that I am
>not rushing this (since it looks to me like this is a major problem that
>will have to be carefully thought through -- it might be easier to redesign
>the font according to your suggestion and convert what has been done this
>far -- the ability to do a word search in this field would be invaluable),
>let me also describe the other twist, raised by your mention of the fuzzy
>algorithm: not only are these words often spelled without their accents,
>they are just as often spelled using a "convention" The "a" with the
>"accent" (there is a word for this accent, I think "bar" but I am not sure)
>is aa, and so on with ee, ii, oo, uu, and with the characters with dots
>under, the convention is .t, .d, .m, .n; and the nya goes ~n.
>
>It looks to me like this is the only problem I have with going this way, and
>on the other hand, I doubt there is another search engine out there that
>will do this at all.
>
>
>Best Wishes!
>Michael Olds
>Los Altos California
>www.BuddhaDust.org
>ICQ#94992160
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