Ferret talk - Jul 2007 - Highlighting returns entire field in Ferret trunk?

Hello,

I''m using Ferret trunk (#770) with Kyle''s large file support
patch:
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/215

I''m having trouble with Ferret::Search::Searcher#highlight returning
too
much text around the query term.  Regardless of what I set 
:excerpt_length to, highlight returns the entire contents of the field 
up to the first occurrence of the search term.

Any suggestions?

-Stuart