suggestion for htdig, #89041
Subject: friendly suggestion for htdig
Followup-For: Bug #89041
Package: htdig
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I'd like to make a friendly suggestion for htdig for Etch. I think it
would be a good idea to include a note about external parsers in the
htdig.conf file (which did exist in the Sarge version of htdig).
I spent a few good hours, messing around with the file doc2html.pl
(which I found in the examples section of the included htdig
documentation). Further, someone on the htdig mailing list suggested
this file. Needless to say, no matter what I did, the file did not
work. I then chanced upon the parse_doc.pl file, and got parsing to
work by adding the following to htdig.conf:
external_parsers: application/pdf->text/html
/usr/share/htdig/parse_doc.pl \
application/msword->text/html /usr/share/htdig/parse_doc.pl
It would be nice if this was already included in the htdig.conf file,
perhaps commented out, giving me the choice to activate it. Perhaps
with a little note about installing xpdf-utils, and/or acroread, and
installing catdoc, to make it work. That way, others can avoid losing
some precious time in setting up their search engine to parse pdf
documents.
It would also be a good idea to have the accompanying
documentation reflect the usage of the parse_doc.pl file, instead of
providing examples of stuff that clearly does not work (ie, replace the
doc2html.pl stuff that's currently there).
Thanks for the great work on Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages htdig depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration
management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-11 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-11 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and
unlocking
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
htdig recommends no packages.
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