Scalar
A non-textual piece of information with a meaningful value. Scalar types in Calm are numbers, dates, times and currency values.
Select
You can select certain areas of text by pressing the left hand mouse button and moving the mouse over the text until the required area is highlighted. You can also select from the menu bar by clicking on the appropriate words.
Status bar
This is a grey bar at the bottom of the screen which contains information about the current record. On the left hand side you will see the record type and the name of the current field.
Stopwords
Stopwords are common words (such as and and the) which are not indexed. They are defined in the file STOPWORD.LST.
Synonyms
A set of words can be defined as synonyms of a "trigger term". Subsequent searches for the trigger term will then match with occurrences of synonyms as well. If required, "wider synonyms" can be used; searches for any synonym of a trigger term will match with the other defined synonyms for that term.