document GUI query config updates

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<!ENTITY RCL "<application>Recoll</application>">
<!ENTITY RCLAPPS "<ulink url='http://www.recoll.org/features.html'>Recoll helper applications page</ulink>">
<!ENTITY RCLVERSION "1.16">
<!ENTITY RCLVERSION "1.17">
<!ENTITY XAP "<application>Xapian</application>">
]>
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</author>
<copyright>
<year>2005-2011</year>
<year>2005-2012</year>
<holder role="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">Jean-Francois
Dockes</holder>
</copyright>
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interface itself, the parameters used for searching and
returning results, and what indexes are searched.</para>
<formalpara id="rcl.search.custom.ui">
<title>User interface parameters:</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Number of results in a result
page</guilabel>: </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Hide duplicate results</guilabel>:
decides if result list entries are shown for identical
documents found in different places.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Highlight color for query
terms</guilabel>: Terms from the user query are highlighted in
the result list samples and the preview window. The color can
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default is <literal>blue</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Result list font</guilabel>: There is
quite a lot of information shown in the result list, and you
may want to customize the font and/or font size. The rest of
the fonts used by &RCL; are determined by your generic Qt
config (try the <command>qtconfig</command> command).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><anchor id="rcl.search.custom.resultpara">
<para><guilabel>Result paragraph format string</guilabel>:
allows you to change the presentation of each result list
entry. This is <link linkend="rcl.search.custom.reslistpara">
described in its own section.</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><anchor id="rcl.search.custom.abssep">
<para><guilabel>Abstract snippet separator</guilabel>:
for synthetic abstracts built from index data, which are
usually made of several snippets from different parts of the
document, this defines the snippet separator, an ellipsis by
default. </para>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Style sheet</guilabel>:
The name of a <application>Qt</application> style sheet
text file which is applied to the whole Recoll application
on startup. The default value is empty, but there is a
skeleton style sheet (<filename>recoll.qss</filename>)
inside the <filename>/usr/share/recoll/examples</filename>
directory. Using a style sheet, you can change most Recoll
graphical parameters: colors, fonts, etc. See the sample
file for a few simple examples.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Maximum text size highlighted for
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text size to speed up loading.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Prefer HTML to plain text for
preview</guilabel> if set, Recoll will display HTML as such
inside the preview window. If this causes problems with the Qt
HTML display, you can uncheck it to display the plain text
version instead. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Use &lt;PRE&gt; tags instead of
&lt;BR&gt; to display plain text as HTML in preview</guilabel>:
when displaying plain text inside the preview window, &RCL;
tries to preserve some of the original text line breaks and
indentation. It can either use PRE HTML tags, which will
well preserve the indentation but will force horizontal
scrolling for long lines, or use BR tags to break at the
original line breaks, which will let the editor introduce
other line breaks according to the window width, but will
lose some of the original indentation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Use desktop preferences to choose
document editor</guilabel>: if this is checked, the
<command>xdg-open</command> utility will be used to open files
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stat between invocations. It normally starts with sorting
disabled.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Prefer HTML to plain text for preview
</guilabel> if set, Recoll will display HTML as such inside the
preview window. If this causes problems with the Qt HTML
display, you can uncheck it to display the plain text version
instead. </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara id="rcl.search.custom.rl">
<title>Result list parameters:</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Number of results in a result
page</guilabel></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Result list font</guilabel>: There is
quite a lot of information shown in the result list, and you
may want to customize the font and/or font size. The rest of
the fonts used by &RCL; are determined by your generic Qt
config (try the <command>qtconfig</command> command).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><anchor id="rcl.search.custom.resultpara">
<para><guilabel>Result paragraph format string</guilabel>:
allows you to change the presentation of each result list
entry. This is <link linkend="rcl.search.custom.reslistpara">
described in its own section.</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Date format</guilabel>: allows specifying the
format used for displaying dates inside the result list. This
should be specified as an strftime() string (man strftime).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><anchor id="rcl.search.custom.abssep">
<para><guilabel>Abstract snippet separator</guilabel>:
for synthetic abstracts built from index data, which are
usually made of several snippets from different parts of the
document, this defines the snippet separator, an ellipsis by
default. </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara id="rcl.search.custom.search">
<title>Search parameters:</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Hide duplicate results</guilabel>:
decides if result list entries are shown for identical
documents found in different places.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Stemming language</guilabel>:
stemming obviously depends on the document's language. This
listbox will let you chose among the stemming databases which
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file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Dynamically add phrase to simple
<listitem><para><guilabel>Automatically add phrase to simple
searches</guilabel>: a phrase will be automatically built and
added to simple searches when looking for <literal>Any
terms</literal>. This will give a relevance boost to the
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and in order).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Autophrase term frequency threshold
percentage</guilabel>: very frequent terms should not be included
in automatic phrase searches for performance reasons. The
parameter defines the cutoff percentage (percentage of the
documents where the term appears).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para><guilabel>Replace abstracts from
documents</guilabel>: this decides if we should synthesize and
display an abstract in place of an explicit abstract found
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place (<filename>$HOME/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf</filename>).
You probably do not want to edit this by hand.</para>
<note><para>One of these parameters is the name of a
<application>Qt</application> style sheet text file which is applied
to the whole Recoll application on startup. The default value is
empty, but there is a skeleton style sheet
(<filename>recoll.qss</filename>) inside the
<filename>/usr/share/recoll/examples</filename> directory. Using a
style sheet, you can change most Recoll graphical parameters: colors,
fonts, etc. See the sample file for a few simple examples.</para>
</note>
<para>&RCL; indexing options are set inside text configuration
files located in a configuration directory. There can be
several such directories, each of which define the parameters