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src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
       Dockes</holder>
     </copyright>
 
-    <releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.50 2007-08-30 09:00:22 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
+    <releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.51 2007-09-21 16:45:03 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
 
     <abstract>
       <para>This document introduces full text search notions
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ skippedNames = #* bin CVS  Cache cache* caughtspam  tmp .thumbnails .svn \
 	      <para>Example of use for skipping text files only in a
 	      specific directory:</para>
 	      <programlisting>
-skippedPaths = ~/somedir/*.txt
+skippedPaths = ~/somedir/&lowast;.txt
               </programlisting>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>
@@ -1957,11 +1957,18 @@ skippedPaths = ~/somedir/*.txt
 
 	  <varlistentry><term><literal>idxabsmlen</literal></term>
 	    <listitem><para>&RCL; stores an abstract for each indexed
-	    file inside the database. This is so that they can be
-	    displayed inside the result lists without decoding the
-	    original file. This parameter defines the size of the
-	    stored abstract (which can come from an actual section or
-	    just be the beginning of the text). The default value is 250.
+	    file inside the database. The text can come from an actual
+	    'abstract' section in the document or will just be the
+	    beginning of the document. It is stored in the index so
+	    that it can be displayed inside the result lists without
+  	    decoding the original
+  	    file. The <literal>idxabsmlen</literal> parameter defines
+	    the size of the stored abstract. The default value is 250 bytes.
+	    The search interface gives you the choice to display this
+	    stored text or a synthetic abstract built by extracting
+	    text around the search terms. If you always
+	    prefer the synthetic abstract, you can reduce this value
+	    and save a little space.
             </para>
 	    </listitem>
 	  </varlistentry>