[htdig-dev] can ht://Dig exclude headings from excerpts?

[John Cady]

Hi all,

I know this may not find anyone; it looks as though dev on ht://Dig
stopped around 2004. However, we've been using this great product
since the late 90's and still find it very useful.

Just a question: is there a way to get ht://Dig to exclude headings
text from excerpts in the search results? We use meta description tags
for our high-value pages, which works wonderfully. However, for our
other pages, the headings (which are obviously necessary on the pages)
tend to muck up the excerpts. For an example, see the example result:

ITCS: How do I use one of the e-mail packages supported at U-M
(mail.umich.edu, Pine, Mulberry, Eudora)?

at

<http://www.itcs.umich.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=e-mail;page=2>

Were the <h2> tag content not repeated in the excerpt, there'd be a
lot more room for the answer to be shown there.

Google search results exclude heading tag contents from results
excerpts; I didn't see a way in the ht://Dig attributes to do the same
thing, but I'm hoping there's some solution.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

John Cady
University of Michigan - ITCS