the "explain" method on a Searcher, and the Explanation classes can explain everything baout how/why a particular document in a particular index gets a particular score for a particular search. The only tricky thing about it is understanding that it refers to the "raw" scores (what you seem to be quoting look like "normalized" scores from the Hits class, but if your cheif concern is the relative order of hte results this is largely irrelevent)
When looking at the Explanation info, many of the terms may not make a lot of sense .. this is where the scoring.html document can fill in the gaps and explain the explaination... http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/scoring.html -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]