<chapter id="fields-and-charsets">
- <!-- $Id: field-structure.xml,v 1.15 2008-03-05 09:33:23 adam Exp $ -->
<title>Field Structure and Character Sets
</title>
(non-space characters) separated by single space characters
(normalized to " " on display). When completeness is
disabled, each word is indexed as a separate entry. Complete subfield
- indexing is most useful for fields which are typically browsed (eg.
+ indexing is most useful for fields which are typically browsed (e.g.,
titles, authors, or subjects), or instances where a match on a
- complete subfield is essential (eg. exact title searching). For fields
+ complete subfield is essential (e.g., exact title searching). For fields
where completeness is disabled, the search engine will interpret a
search containing space characters as a word proximity search.
</para>
to them:
<screen>
# Traditional word index
- # Used if completenss is 'incomplete field' (@attr 6=1) and
+ # Used if completeness is 'incomplete field' (@attr 6=1) and
# structure is word/phrase/word-list/free-form-text/document-text
index w
completeness 0
<para>
Curly braces {} may be used to enclose ranges of single
characters (possibly using the escape convention described in the
- preceding point), eg. {a-z} to introduce the
+ preceding point), e.g., {a-z} to introduce the
standard range of ASCII characters.
Note that the interpretation of such a range depends on
the concrete representation in your local, physical character set.
<listitem>
<para>
- paranthesises () may be used to enclose multi-byte characters -
- eg. diacritics or special national combinations (eg. Spanish
+ parentheses () may be used to enclose multi-byte characters -
+ e.g., diacritics or special national combinations (e.g., Spanish
"ll"). When found in the input stream (or a search term),
these characters are viewed and sorted as a single character, with a
sorting value depending on the position of the group in the value
<example id="indexing-marcxml-example"><title>MARCXML indexing using ICU</title>
<para>
The directory <filename>examples/marcxml</filename> includes
- a complete sample with MARCXML recordst that are DOM XML indexed
+ a complete sample with MARCXML records that are DOM XML indexed
using ICU chain rules. Study the
<filename>README</filename> in the <filename>marcxml</filename>
directory for details.