Antidote Changelog

What's new in Antidote 9.4.1

• NEW DETECTIONS AND CORRECTIONS:
• Detection of inflection inconsistencies (auteur/autrice)
• Correction of number formatting
• Correction of missing periods at the end of paragraphs
• Refined correction of compound words
• Correction of spacing before an alphanumeric code (modèle F-12)
• MORE ACCURATE CORRECTION:
• More accurate correction: hundreds of improvements
• Detection of dialogues and adaptable correction
• Context-based correction of dashes
• Adjustable settings for words inside square brackets
• Consideration of gender-neutral constructions, e.g. “étudiant(e)s”
• MORE FLEXIBLE CORRECTION:
• Settings for disabling certain detections in dialogues and quotes
• Settings for alignment zeros in written times
• Settings for certain non-standard abbreviations
• Settings for past participles that agree with the pronoun en
• Custom settings for flagging dubious capitalization
• Custom settings for flagging redundancies
• Settings for ‹ single French quotation marks ›
• Settings for spacing around dashes
• IMPROVED CORRECTION INTERFACE:
• Ability to send emails directly from Anti-Oops!
• More prominent display of discontinuity problems
• Saving of previously ignored words—great for correcting long, repetitive texts
• Ability to hide previously ignored detections in the list of detections
• Clear identification of passages in another language
• Identification of dialogues and quotes
• Identification of the initial word processor used (Word, etc.)
• Information on the percentages of French and English used in the text
• Ability to change font size in the three main panels
• Selection of full sentences with a simple click in the margin
• Settings for disabling correction in a certain language
• Links to definitions in the corrector’s tooltips
• Ability for users to disable Anti-Oops! correction in one language
• ENHANCED DICTIONARIES:
• 1500 new words—27,000 in total
• 4000 new expressions—56,000 in total
• 5000 new synonyms
• Addition of new 2015 World Heritage Sites
• 39,000 new combinations
• 88,000 etymologically related words—2.6 million connections in total
• 100 new etymological notes—nearly 500 in total
• NEW DETAILS PANEL IN DEFINITIONS:
• Sleeker, more comprehensive presentation of details
• Separation into three main sections: Details, Difficulties and More
• 30,000 issues prominently displayed in red
• Identification of the agreement for each reflexive verb
• Identification of moods required for each conjunction
• Displaying of phonetic liaison (“grand homme”)
• Inflections preceded by a determiner, to facilitate memorization
• Invariability markers generalized and adapted
• Systematized examples of false friends
• Warning for words with gender difficulties (“une oasis” not “*un oasis”)
• Clear identification of words including an etymological note
• Adjustable width
• IMPROVED DICTIONARY OF SEMANTIC FIELDS:
• 600,000 new links—2.8 million in total
• Semantic fields of 10,000 proper nouns
• Viewable browsing history in the interactive sphere
• Category filters in the interactive sphere
• Improved semantic classification
• MORE EFFECTIVE SEARCH TOOL:
• Search by number of syllables
• Search by positive or negative connotation
• Search for countries, cities, people and World Heritage Sites
• Search for anagrams with substitutions
• Two new instant search modes: Contains and Anagrams
• Search with variables—get results even with very few known characters
• NEW EXTERNAL RESOURCES:
• 11,000 links to interactive maps and satellite images
• Smart links to Le grand dictionnaire terminologique and Termium
• Smart links to a configurable online search engine
• Ability to set up new links to other external resources
• IMPROVED DICTIONARY DISPLAY:
• Definitions—rectified spelling displayed (based on settings)
• Definitions—criticism displayed beneath the relevant meaning
• Synonyms—improved presentation of hyponyms and hypernyms
• Synonyms—rectified spelling displayed (based on settings)
• Conjugation—all forms displayed on the same page
• More straightforward classification of combinations with adjectives
• Find bar integrated with each dictionary
• Option to delete browsing history
• UPDATED AND EXPANDED GUIDES:
• 25 new articles—825 in total
• Updated articles
• New style guide
• More intuitive interface
• Improved search function
• Possibility of hiding sidebars
• Find bar integrated in window
• GENERAL:
• Possibility of downloading and adding the corrector, dictionaries and guides for English
• Choice of an English or French interface (including for French-only content)
• Automatic online activation—no code required
• Upgraded interface adapted to new versions of Windows and OS X
• New module management window
• Better support for non-Latin (unicode) systems
• (Mac) Better support for full-screen mode
• (Mac) Integrations revised and simplified
• (Win) Silent multi-user installation
• Better display on high definition screens (HiDPI)
• Integration with SDL Trados Studio Professional 2015 SR2 and 2017 (SDL connector required)
• Compatibility with macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
• Several improvements to integrations