According to TyMaynard:
>  I am a starter with htdig and wanting to understand its capabilities first:
> 
> I understand that a found word in search will return a predesignated
> portion of the document to present with the hit....somewhere i read
> a recommended amount of 512 bytes.  I have approximate 150 k  text
> newsletters to present in an archive....of course this is many scrolled
> screens deep.  I would like to keep each newsletter as a consolidated
> html document...and can insert anchors at the beginning of each short
> article in a monthly newsletter.
> 
> I  have seen  add_anchors_to_excerpt  "If set to true, the first
> occurrence of each matched word in the excerpt  will be linked to the
> closest anchor in the document "
> 
> My question: 
> Does this mean it is linked to NEAREST  or  NEAREST ABOVE anchor.
> An anchor is usually at the beginning of a particular section of
> interest (where the title or subheading lives)....it would be confusing
> for the excerpt to rake someone to the anchor of the next region.
> If ABOVE is not a default behavior, can someone point me to the tools
> to make sure that the linked anchor is the NEAREST ABOVE

It uses the closest anchor ABOVE the first matched word in the document.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
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