On 8/9/07, Benjamin Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I'd like to provide a blurb of documents matching a search in > the case when there is no text highlighted. I assumed that perhaps the > highlighter would give me back the first few words in a document if this > occurred, but it doesn't. My conundrum is that I'd rather not grab the > whole document body field because some of them are large. Is there some > way I can request from Lucene the first N words or lines from a field?
Hmmm, that does sound like a reasonable thing, and I guess it belongs in/with the highlighter functionallity? Could you open a JIRA issue to track this? -Yonik