Highlight profiles with proximity

Apply proximity operators in your highlight profiles

You can now use proximity operators and parenthesis in your highlight profiles.

To try it out just open the Highlight Wizard from a results list and enter your highlight query.

The following operators/wild cards are now accepted.

+/*

Truncation replacing any number of characters.

Bicycle shed+
*inflammatory

?

Truncation replacing zero or one character.

bicycle?
alumin?um

#

Truncation replaces exactly one character.

polymeri#ation

_

The underscore allows for simultaneous searching of terms that may be written as one or two words. It will also retrieve results where there is a hyphen between terms.

 

air_bag

+ethylen+_+carbonate+

OR/,

Finds either of the “OR’d” terms

 

sulfur or sulphur

"Guillemets"

Searches an exact phrase. Can be used to encapsulate text strings that would otherwise be recognized as operators.

 

“3W”

D

The terms adjacent in any order

redundancy d check

nD

The terms adjacent, regardless of the order, separated by a maximum of n words (n value between 0 and 99).

conduct 2d electric 2d adhesive

=nD

The terms adjacent, regardless of the order, separated by exactly n words (n value between 0 and 99).

electric+ =2d conduct+ =2d adhesive

W

The terms adjacent in the order specified; treatment applied by default for two terms entered without operator.

smart w card?
smart card?

nW

The terms adjacent in the order specified and separated by a maximum of n words (n = value between 0 and 99).

friction 9w pad?

=nW

The terms adjacent in the order specified and separated by exactly n words (n = value between 0 and 99).

friction =21w pad?

(Parentheses)

Parentheses (nesting) are necessary when combining different operators.

((wireless w application w protocol) or wap) 11w (dna or transgenic)

You’ll notice that when you click outside of the input box the recognized operators are shown in blue.

Asian character highlighting

When you enter Asian characters in the highlight wizard we have a different algorithm which improves the detection of Asian characters to overcome issues with how word boundaries are defined in these languages.

You cannot use the new operators in the same highlight row as Asian languages as soon as you enter an Asian character the highlight wizard will notify that you can’t use operators in this row.

You can still use operators on a separate line.

Cross session persistent highlighting

You can now select a highlight profile to remain persistent across new searches. This means when you launch a new search a new profile is not created automatically, instead you keep the profile you had setup manually.

This option already existed but was limited to a single session. it has now been expanded so that this setting stays applied across multiple sessions. You can logout and then back in again and your selected highlight profile will still be applied to new searches.