I haven't tried this, but it seems like you could probably run the "text builder" and change the JS code to search the output of that. Which would at least minimize the amount of extra "stuff" in your search output.
Kevin Horn On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jeff McKenna <jeffmcke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've done some research into this, so I'll reply to my own email: > > To modify the search output, you can modify the _static/searchtools.js file > in your output directory. If you look at around line#483 of that file in a > text editor, you can see that it looks in the _source directory and crawls > the ".txt" files for the search term. You can change that javascript so it > crawls the .html files instead, but the same problem will occur: raw html > tags will be included in the result summary. > > You can remove the summary and just show the page name by commenting > line#486: > > //listItem.append($.makeSearchSummary(data, searchterms, hlterms)); > > I hope this info helps someone else down the line. > > Thanks! > > -jeff > > > > > On 11-04-20 1:40 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > >> I was about to ask the same question as Chris: how to not show the raw >> restructured text in Sphinx's search results. If an html snippet can't >> be shown instead, can I customize the search results to only show the >> page heading name? (I found one site that does not show the restructured >> text, but shows the page's heading name instead: >> >> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/search.html?check_keywords=yes&area=default&q=install&x=0&y=0 >> ) >> >> >> Any thoughts on this issue (showing html instead of rst in search >> results, or, not showing the rst snippet at all, just the heading)? >> >> -jeff >> >> >> >> On 11-04-15 9:21 PM, Chris wrote: >> >>> I noticed that on the search result page, the snippets include the >>> markup used to identify various headings in the .rst files. shouldn't >>> these be hidden to the end user? >>> >>> For example: >>> http://sphinx.pocoo.org/search.html?q=doctest+snippet >>> >>> shows: >>> >>> sphinx.ext.doctest – Test snippets in the documentation >>> .. highlight:: rest :mod:`sphinx.ext.doctest` -- Test snippets in the >>> documentation >>> =============================================================== .. >>> module:: sphinx.ext.doctest :synopsis: Test snippets in the >>> documentation. .. index... >>> >>> and >>> >>> Changes in Sphinx >>> :tocdepth: 2 .. _changes: Changes in Sphinx ***************** .. >>> include:: ../CHANGES... >>> >>> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sphinx-dev" group. > To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.