I don't know if there is anyway for a Custom Sort to access the lucene score -- but another approach that works very well is to use the FunctionQuery classes from Solr...
http://incubator.apache.org/solr/docs/api/org/apache/solr/search/function/package-summary.html ...you can make a FunctionQuery object that scores things linerarly (or reciprocally, or any other funciton you impliment in java) based on the value of any field -- and then add that query to a BooleanQuery along with your orriginal query and use the boost to determine how much of an influence it has on your final score. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]