I am trying to locate 'Minnesota high school', 'Minnetonka high school' or 'Minneapolis high school'.
Instead, "Minn* West High schools" is locating extra words after Minn* rooted words. ('Minnesota East West High School' for example). It seems like within double quotes, "Minn* High" behaves like 'Minn*High' (without double quotes). Is this an expected behavior for wildcard searches within double quotes?
I have <apicp exactphrase "on">
and <apicp minwordlen 5>
Yes, this is expected (historically defined) behavior: a wildcard inside a phrase (other than the last word) can span words, up to 80 characters away. (I presume it's a typo that `west' is missing from your match examples; otherwise they would not match anyway.)
You could split the query like this:
Minn* "west high school"
and use LIKEP with likeporder and likepproximity turned up and the other likep* settings down; there's no guarantee they'll be adjacent (as with your original query) but at least closer ones will be returned first.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't [Minn* "west high school"] equivalent to [Minn*] and ["west high school"]? If it is then it won't find the entire phrase in a sequence.
According to the manual (http://www.thunderstone.com/site/texisman/node204.html), prop* will match property, proper,propane etc. and 'Pres*Busto' will match 'President Jorge Busto'. It doesn't mention the expected behavior for a wildcard within double quotes. Is there a way to do an exactphrase search for ["Minn* High School"] and retain the sequence?