Erik Hatcher wrote:
> The Lucene Highlighter doesn't require that the text you want 
> highlighted be stored.  In fact, you can pass in any arbitrary text to 
> the Highlighter.

Thanks Erik,

What I'm looking for is to return the context of the search result, not 
just the ID of the containing document - e.g. when all I input is "yak 
culture," I get back the context from the document as a search result, 
without having to retrieve the doc itself:

... addressing the fine points of <strong>yak culture</strong>, the 
zoosociologists took into account ...

GS out of the box does not appear to support this, as it does not store 
the fulltext in the index.  So yes, I can highlight stuff, but as it 
stands, I don't have the text to work with.  IANA Lucene guru, so 
correct me if I misunderstand.

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