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. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email [log in to unmask]