Juan, Pay close attention to the boundary scanner you’re employing:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HighlightingParameters#hl.boundaryScanner You can be explicit to indicate a type (hl.bs.type) with options such as CHARACTER, WORD, SENTENCE, and LINE. The default is WORD (as the wiki indicates) and I presume this is what you are employing. Be careful about using explicit characters. I had an interesting case of highlight returns that looked like this: > This is a highlight > Here is another highlight > Yes, another one, etc… It was a bit maddening trying to figure out why “>” was in the highlight…turned out it was XML content and the character boundary clipped the trailing “>” based on the boundary rules. In any case, you should be able to achieve a pretty flexible result depending on what you’re really after with the right combination of settings. Jason On Feb 19, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Juan Carlos Serrano <jcserran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm using Solr 4.6.1. and I'd like to know if there's a way to determine > exactly the number of characters of a fragment used in highlights. If I use > hl.fragsize=70 the length of the fragments that I get is variable (often) > and I get results of 90 characters length. > > Regards and thanks in advance, > > Juan Carlos
