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   1 <h2><a name="tips">Tips on searching</a></h2>
   2
   3 <p>
   4 If you have trouble with searching, you can check the following tips.
   5 </p>
   6
   7 <ul>
   8 <li>Check a spelling of your keyword<br>
   9 Namazu can't find anything with wrong spelling.
  10
  11 <li>Add keywords<br>
  12
  13 If you gained no results or too few results, you can add one
  14 or more related keywords with <code
  15 class="operator">or</code> operator. It makes your search
  16 more hittable. e.g., <br>
  17 <code class="example">tex or ptex or latex or latex2e</code><br>
  18
  19 If you gaind too many results, you can add one or more
  20 related keywords with <code class="operator">and</code>
  21 operator. It makes your search more limited. e.g., <br>
  22 <code class="example">latex and dvi2ps and eps</code>
  23
  24 <li>Try substring matching<br>
  25
  26 If you gained no results or too few results, you can try
  27 substring matching.
  28
  29 You can specify <code class="example">tex*</code> to
  30 search for terms which begin with
  31 <code>tex</code> (e.g., <code>tex</code>,
  32 <code>texi2html</code>,
  33 <code>texindex</code>, <code>text</code>).
  34 <br>
  35
  36 You can specify <code class="example">*tex</code> to
  37 search for terms which terminated with <code>tex</code> (e.g.,
  38 <code>bibtex</code>,
  39 <code>jlatex</code>, <code>latex</code>,
  40 <code>platex</code>, <code>ptex</code>, <code>vertex</code>).
  41 <br>
  42
  43 You can specify <code class="example">*tex*</code> to
  44 search for terms which contain <code>tex</code> (many).
  45 <br>
  46
  47 <li>You tried phrase searching but it hit documents which
  48 didn't contain your phrase.<br>
  49
  50 It's a defect of Namazu. Precision of phrase searching is
  51 not 100 %, so it cause wrong results occasionally.
  52
  53 <li>You want to use <code class="operator">and</code>,
  54 <code class="operator">or</code> or <code
  55 class="operator">not</code> as ordinary keywords<br>
  56 You can surround them respectively with double quotes like <code
  57 class="operator">"..."</code> or braces like <code
  58 class="operator">{...}</code>.
  59
  60 </ul>