[Xapian-discuss] Document Abstracts

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:21:09PM -0400, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
> Is it possible to show the first lines of a document that 
> matched the search terms?  Often times the first few lines of a file 
> don't make it completely clear why a document was ranked highly.

There's no such feature built in at present, though it's something
I'd like to see.  Meanwhile, this may prove useful:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/4111

Cheers,
    Olly