According to Greg Lepore: > Gilles, > > Good point but for Mich<sup>l</sup> I would add entries in the > synonyms database for Mich Michael and Michl since they are all the same > word. For that example, there's no reason to want to search for each entry > individually. I would vote for treating the <sup> and <sub> as hyphens but > I can see where this might cause trouble (mathematical equations might be > one such case).
OK, I see that I misread the document whose URL you posted before. What I thought were superscript "ones" were actually "els", so Nath<sup>l</sup> is actually an abbreviation of Nathaniel, right? When we index scientific papers, it's very common for a person's name to be followed by a superscript digit referring to a footnote, hence my assumption. Yes, I can see what you mean about mathematical equations. If we start inserting hyphens in the excerpts, it could confuse matters. However, it shouldn't be a problem for the word database, because the punctuation gets stripped out, so X<sub>i</sub> would get indexed as x, i and xi, assuming a minimum_word_length of 1. -- 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 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
