Emphasis in search results

[Tapio]

I know Zoom is built for indexing the pages' content only, but would it be possible to preserve the words possible (html) emphasis (italic, bold) in showing the search results?

[David]

There is no option for this in the current software.
It is also significantly harder than you think as there are basically an infinite number of ways to style text via CSS and it can be hard to tell what is emphasis. Even a simple bold style can be applied in many different ways (<b> tags, font-weight: bold; font-weight: 900;, <strong> tags, font-weight: bolder, etc..). And what happens if the whole page is using a bold text font?

[Tapio]

Well, I didn't think to include the entire portfolio of styles. Merely I though to have only one or a couple of most common (user defined?) html tags, like i and b.

I asked this, because I noticed that some users may copy the sentence(s) directly from search results for further use, without going to linked page.

But if this feature is not feasible or not worth of effort, I understand to ignore the feature request.

Thanks for consideration.
Regards

[David]

Technically it is possible of course. But it isn't trivial as it would be a change to the index format and all the search options (PHP, CGI, JS etc..).
If we had enough people asking for the feature we could look at it, but it's been twenty years in development now and I don't think we have had this request before.