From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 9 12:52:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492BE37B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF8943E09; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g69JqM105362; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:52:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g69JqLj21213; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:52:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g69JqJ521206; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:52:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D2B3EF3.D2B1E72B@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:52:19 -0500 From: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wouter Van Hemel Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beta FreeBSD search engine References: <200207091637.JAA25232@eskimo.com> <3D2B218A.828433E4@centtech.com> <1026240902.250.135.camel@cocaine> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > If you would include the language in the index, you could give back all > languages for a given document, e.g. > > Manual Vinum Bootstrapping > ... sd name home.p.s drive YouCrazy plex home.p len hl driveoffset ho ... > http://www.sprawler.com/doc1/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/manualboot.html - 12k - [HIGHLIGHTED] > (de . en . fr . gr . etc) I like this - good idea.. Now, to try to implement it.. :) I'll try to come up with something along this line.. > I'm just thinking out loud about the possibilities... rather than about > the time you have available. Great job so far! ;) Thanks! Thinking out loud is good - even if I can't implement everything right now, I'll eventually get it in there (hopefully). > The problem with a drop-down box with the available languages or something > along those lines is that the documentation in other languages isn't > always complete. If people select some obsure language that has only a few > documents translated, it's likely their search won't turn up any results. > So to be sure they get all relevant information, they will only use > English. Or possibly complain about the lack of information, if they > don't. Good point.. I think most people ignore search options for the most part anyhow, and use default most of the time. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message