Apologies for my confusion in this request. The only link to Fedora 19 is that I use it exclusively for all my work.
I have need to create a small dedicated web page newsletter with a number of plain text areas that may contain 50 - 1000 words.
The contributor would copy and paste plain text layed out in sentences and paragraphs with appropriate markups like <i> or <b>. Quotations where included in the text passage would be delimited by <i>.
The fields data will be auto formatted by Rails/html5/css3 when displayed as web page/s in blocks of information may be 2 or 3 columns and on A4 pages when printed.
The field data will be in a postgresql database so have been looking at Postgres Documentation chapter 12 Full text search which answers part of the problem of searching through text but I do not understand how to generate an automatic search using words or brief sentences stored in pre established tables. Or how to get automatic scanning of a block of text as soon as it is pasted.
I read 12.6 Dictionaries but cannot work out how to use this info. I read a little on SOLR but am uncertain how it could help.
Web page display times are not critical, does not have to be instant.
Has anyone seen or done something like this before and can point me in a direction. Thanks in anticipation Roger
Allegedly, on or about 08 November 2013, Roger sent:
I have need to create a small dedicated web page newsletter with a number of plain text areas that may contain 50 - 1000 words.
The contributor would copy and paste plain text layed out in sentences and paragraphs with appropriate markups like <i> or <b>. Quotations where included in the text passage would be delimited by <i>.
For what it's worth, since you mention "appropriate" mark-up, then <i> is not an appropriate mark-up for a quote. If you actually use correct mark-up (i is merely for italics, b for bold, em for emphasised, q for quotes, or simply using normal quote characters, et cetera), then you stand a better chance of getting correct parsing of data.
It sounds like you just want a search engine. Whether you want/need to find a ready-made one that works for your case, or you need to make your own specialised one up, isn't entirely clear from your posting. If you want to make your own, or customise an existing one, perhaps you should look at an existing one (e.g. htdig), to garner ideas about how to do it.
I mention one, htdig, because I've used it as a general purpose search engine on our intranet, and know that you can tailor its output in various ways, just by customising the HTML templates it uses to construct its results pages. For more complex customising, you might look at its coding, and work things out from there.
There's bound to be others, but since you mentioned postgres, it'd seem that you most want to learn about databases, first. Most search engines periodically update their database, it sounds like you need something different, if you want instant updating.
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