Antidote User Guide

177 Pages·2015·30.77 MB·English

CORRECTOR
DICTIONARIES
GUIDES
USER GUIDE
USER GUIDE
ANTIDOTE WAS CREATED BY
Development : Éric Brunelle, Bertrand Pelletier, Mala F. Bergevin, Jean Fontaine, Jean Saint-Germain,
Simon Charest, Jacky Gagnon, Jonathan Mérel, Pierre Doyon, Jasmin Lapalme, Maud Pironneau, Sébastien
Christin, Gabriel Aubut-Lussier, Stéphanie Legros, Simon Beàn, Anne-Laure Jousse, Joshua Holden, Simon
Langevin, François Lemieux, Jack Dixon, Audrey Laroche, Charles Robert Simard, Guillaume Morin, Lise
Rebout, Houssem Eddine Dridi, Philippe Arcand, Philip Frenette Cloutier, Christian Comeau, Antoine
Michaud, Natercia Machado, Rachel Victoria Stone, Anne-Laure Pelurson, Mathieu Genesse-Grenier,
Camille Jaillet-Forte, François Robert, Sophie Campbell, Luke Deraiche, Cassandra Laroche-Yankey, Mireille
Léger-Rousseau, Alex Dillon, Geneviève Lamoureux, Oliver Marshall, Isabelle Normand-Dubreuil, Ryan C.
Taylor, Justin Bur, Pierre Paul Monty, Mohamad Gebai, Frédéric Mercille, Hugo Voisard, Chantal Contant,
Martin Leclerc, Geneviève Tardif, Frédéric Côté, Marie-Hélène Gaudreault, Pierre Girouard, Leila Kosseim,
Elisabeth Aubut, Maude Marcotte, Windy Tardif, Juliette Vachon-Fitzpatrick, Kasha Grégoire, Justina Sauro,
Daniel Galarreta-Piquette, Florence Marcotte, Maxwell Meade, Aaron Ricker, Renaud Brunet, Nicholas Ryan
Cunningham, Karissa A. Clayberg, Bianca Mertens, Caitlin Walsh Miller, Benjamin Winik, Karen Chan, Claire
Gullander-Drolet, Katyana Repas, Julie Fader, Sophie Piron, Roger Brunelle, Monique Charette, Dominique
Fortier, Julien Guimont, Rosalie Landry, Sara-Anne Leblanc, Karine Pouliot, Mario de Repentigny, Isabelle
Roy, Ophélie Tremblay, Michel D’Astous, Carine Harvey, Stefán Ketseti, Rock Perreault, Anick Pomerleau.
Marketing : André d’Orsonnens, François Papik Bélanger, André Gervais, Lyne Laframboise, Dolores Tam,
Martin Robitaille, Linda Ouellet, Lucie Guillemette, Maryse Gariépy, Claude Tétreault, Valérie Gagné, Claude
Côté, Fariza Challam, Benjamin Marsteau, Sébastien Dreyfuss, Jean-François Chéron, Jacques Prud’homme,
Jean-Guillaume Dumont, Marie Lasnier, Pascal Robert, Élisabeth Éthier, Eva Morgan Reeve, Jessica-Ann
Pollard, Maxime Larivée, Eve Delisle, Dina Marques, Maude Woods-Lavoie, Sabine Sandaire, Marie-Christine
Perreault, Caroline St-Louis, Dominique Deslauriers, Patrice Hudon, Erica Castaneda, Martin Demontigny,
Samantha Chareille, Caroline Dupont, Serge Beuchillot, Nelson Tavares, Christian Bergeron, Éric Saint-Cyr,
Céline Gauthier, Stéphane Tota, Jonathan Evans, Louise Bleau, Claudia Citta, Alexandre Morin, Virginie
Tremblay, François Rioux, Sophie Guilbert.
ANTIDOTE’S USER GUIDE WAS CREATED BY
Text : Éric Brunelle, Mala F. Bergevin, Jean Fontaine, Charles Robert Simard, Audrey Laroche, Maud Pironneau,
Anne-Laure Jousse, Stéphanie Legros, Simon Charest, Joshua Holden, Jack Dixon, Ryan C. Taylor, Elliott
Macklovitch, Terry Knowles, François Papik Bélanger, André d’Orsonnens.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................13
Corrector ................................................................................................................................14
Dictionaries ...........................................................................................................................15
Language guides ..................................................................................................................21
THE CORRECTOR ................................................................................................................23
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................23
Accessing the corrector ........................................................................................................24
The correction prism .............................................................................................................24
The correction process ..........................................................................................................25
Types of detections and underlining ...................................................................................26
Explanations ..........................................................................................................................28
Handling a detection ............................................................................................................30
List of detections ..................................................................................................................36
The style view .....................................................................................................................38
The revision prism ...............................................................................................................44
The statistics prism ...............................................................................................................49
The inspection prism ............................................................................................................52
Navigating in the filters .......................................................................................................53
Modifying the text ................................................................................................................53
Printing the results ...............................................................................................................54
Detailed analysis ..................................................................................................................54
Text displayed in grey ..........................................................................................................55
Understanding how the corrector works .............................................................................55
THE DICTIONARIES ............................................................................................................57
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................57
Accessing the dictionaries ....................................................................................................58
Instant search menu ............................................................................................................58
Homographs bar ...................................................................................................................60
Definitions dictionary ...........................................................................................................60
Dictionary of synonyms .......................................................................................................65
Dictionary of combinations ..................................................................................................67
Dictionary of semantic fields ...............................................................................................69
Conjugation dictionary .........................................................................................................71
Dictionary of families ...........................................................................................................73
Dictionary of quotations ......................................................................................................73
Historical dictionary ..............................................................................................................74
Accessing Wikipedia .............................................................................................................75
Multi-word search ................................................................................................................77
Searching with variables ......................................................................................................78
Searching by criteria .............................................................................................................80
Navigating through the dictionaries ...................................................................................86
Favourites ..............................................................................................................................87
Discovering new words ........................................................................................................87
Text search ............................................................................................................................88
Replacing a word in the text ...............................................................................................88
Extracting the dictionary contents .......................................................................................88
Printing the dictionary contents ..........................................................................................88
THE LANGUAGE GUIDES .....................................................................................................89
Accessing the guides ............................................................................................................90
Navigating the guides ..........................................................................................................91
Favourites ..............................................................................................................................93
Printing articles ...................................................................................................................93
ANTI-OOPS! .......................................................................................................................95
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................95
The corrector is watching .....................................................................................................95
Checking attachments ..........................................................................................................96
Why adjust the settings? ......................................................................................................97
SETTINGS ..........................................................................................................................97
Accessing the settings ..........................................................................................................98
Adjusting the settings ..........................................................................................................98
Presets ..................................................................................................................................99
Interface settings ...............................................................................................................100
General panel ..........................................................................................................100
Appearance panel ..................................................................................................102
Access Control panel ................................................................................................103
Context menu panel .................................................................................................103
External resources panel .........................................................................................104
Corrector settings ...............................................................................................................105
General panel ...........................................................................................................105
Exclusions panel ......................................................................................................108
Anti-Oops! panel ......................................................................................................108
Ignored words panel ................................................................................................109
Language settings ..............................................................................................................110
General panel ..........................................................................................................110
Author panel .............................................................................................................111
Word usage panel ...................................................................................................112
Confusion panel .......................................................................................................113
Capital letters panel ...............................................................................................114
Punctuation panel ....................................................................................................115
Typographic settings ..........................................................................................................117
General panel ..........................................................................................................117
Spaces panel .............................................................................................................118
Conventions panel ....................................................................................................119
PERSONAL DICTIONARIES ................................................................................................121
Adding an entry to a personal dictionary .........................................................................123
Saving the new word .........................................................................................................126
Managing entries in the personal dictionaries .................................................................126
Importing into a personal dictionary .................................................................................127
Exporting a personal dictionary .........................................................................................128
Copying a personal dictionary ...........................................................................................128
Managing personal dictionaries .......................................................................................128
THE FRENCH MODULE .......................................................................................................131
Introduction ........................................................................................................................131
Corrector ..............................................................................................................................132
Dictionaries .........................................................................................................................135
Guides .................................................................................................................................145
Anti-Oops! ...........................................................................................................................147
Settings ...............................................................................................................................147
Personal dictionaries ..........................................................................................................155
APPENDIX I: TECHNICAL SUPPORT ..................................................................................159
APPENDIX II: BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................161
INDEX ...............................................................................................................................173
THANKS ............................................................................................................................177
FOREWORD
Antidote is based on four key values: consistency, scope, simplicity and accessibility.
Consistency. Antidote is a one-stop, multi-resource platform sure to be useful to anyone
writing in English, including an advanced corrector, as well as a set of rich dictionaries and
detailed language guides. All these resources aren’t just pasted together: they’re carefully
designed to complement one another and interact intelligently to help you explore every
aspect of a language-related question. Individually, each of these resources rivals the best
in its category. Together, they are simply unmatched.
Scope. The resources in Antidote have some impressive figures to offer: 94,000 words,
700,000 combinations, 1,400,000 synonyms, 7,500 verbs, 13,000 targeted errors and much
more. It all adds up to a real treasure trove of information, the fruit of many person-years
of research. And each resource comes with a host of useful functions, like the 200 filters
in the corrector and the many search modes in the dictionaries.
Simplicity. All the resources appear in just three windows. Each window clearly lays out
the functions with minimal buttons, complemented by all sorts of clever, handy options
just when you need them. The result is a simple, quick and effective correction process.
Antidote is powerful but clean and easy to master.
Accessibility. Antidote is accessible directly from your document with a simple mouse click
or from a menu. No files to send or convert, no time wasted. You’re busy writing, something
nags you: you just click and Antidote comes to your help. It’s like having an English expert
living inside your computer.
Antidote comes with a myriad of useful features. The corrector offers three powerful views
of your text: Language, Typography and Style. The Language view checks spelling, grammar,
punctuation and much more. The Typography view fixes quotes, spaces, dashes and more.
The Style view helps avoid repetitions, awkward phrasing and vocabulary weaknesses.
You’ll also appreciate the corrector’s adaptability, as it automatically recognizes passages
inside quotation marks and can apply different standards to those cases. It remembers the
words you tell it to ignore, and checks the formats of numbers, hours and dates. You can
take a break and then tell it to pick up where it left off correcting a long document, and
create your own dictionaries with terms specific to your field.
It keeps track of statistics, weighs the positive or negative tone of your text, and even checks
internal logic. We bet it will offer features you never even knew you needed!
There’s a handy Anti-Oops! feature, too, that keeps an eye on your emails and makes sure
that you remember to include attachments.