mnoGoSearch 3.3.9 reference manual: Full-featured search engine software
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# ExcerptPadding

## Name

ExcerptPadding -- defines excerpt context length

`search.htm`

## Synopsis

ExcerptPadding {length}

## Description

ExcerptPadding defines context length for context chunks and affects appearance of the `$&(body)` template variable.

When building excerpts for presenting a document in search results (using either Cached Copy or the body section of the document, or the original document), search.cgi concatenates context chunks. Every context chunk consists of a search query word padded with its original context from the left and the right sides and can be up to `ExcerptPadding * 2 + length(word)` characters.

The default value is `40`.

The number of context chunks concatenated into a document except can be approximately calculated as `ExcerptSize / (ExcerptPadding * 2 + length(word))`. So a larger ExcerptPadding value makes every context chunk longer but reduces the number of context chunks that can fit into ExcerptSize.

## Examples

    ExcerptPadding 64

## See also

DateFormat, ExcerptSize, ExcerptStopword, HlBeg, HlEnd, Locale, PagesPerScreen.

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