Re: Don't grok manual: scoring

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> In the "Score File Format" node, it talks about the fourth element in
> a list, and there it says:
...
> Before, it was said that the fourth element should be a symbol.
> Here, it is the symbol `s'.  But what does that have to do with the
> "Extra" heading of this paragraph?

I believe you are misreading the section.

"Extra" is another class of scoring, just as "Lines, Chars" is
different (and a separate paragraph) from "From, Subject, References,
Xref, Message-ID".

The discussion of the 4th element describes the dependency upon what
is being scored, so that scoring can distinguish what types are
available (`<' and `>' for lines & chars; s/r/e for simple string
content, before/after for dates, and so forth).  The placement of the
"Extra" section under "From, Subject, References, Xref, Message-ID"
was because extra headers' scoring is essentially just like those
standard ones, which uses s/r/e scoring.  The difference lies only in
the addition of the new 5th element, to specify which extra header is
to be scored.

> Maybe it should say explicitly there that this paragraph isn't really
> about the fourth item in the list at all, instead it's about the
> fifth item.  Whee.  Hm.  Quite confusing.

Sorry if confusion has been caused.  It is indeed about the 4th
element, as the beginning of item 4 indicates, where it discusses the
"type element" (s r e < > before after etc).

--karl