Carcass Tutorial - Part 4

Carcass displays a maximum of 1000 concordance lines at a time, if the query returns less than 1000 hits (as is the case of the query “naked eye”) you don't need to worry, but in the case of the query for “eye” we get 6.232 hits.

You'll notice that the number of pages of results if displayed at the top of the result window:

In this case we have a total of 7 pages (the first one displays results from 1 to 1000, the second displays results from 1001 to 2000 and so on). You can click on the Next Page button to display to the next page of results, or to the Last Page button to display the last.

Likewise, the Previous Page and First Page button display to the previous and fist page of results respectively.

Carcass allows you to resize various part of the application to suit your needs.

Try the following:

• move the mouse exactly over the line that separates the Simple query panel (the blue one) from the Results panel right below it, you'll notice that the mouse pointer changes
• without moving the pointer, click with the left mouse button and, while keeping the button down, move the mouse up or down, you'll see that the sizes of the two panels change.

We already saw that it's possible to maximise the Results window by double-clicking on the tab title, you can do the same with the Simple query editor and with the Query history:

To restore the normal window size, double-click on the tab title:

Maximising windows is especially useful when queries are particularly long don't fit in the regular window.

This concludes the basic tutorial, if you want to learn about the more advanced features of Carcass, check out the advanced tutorial.

Alternatively, you can go back to the tutorials home page.