What's New in Antidote 10

General

• (Mac) Dark mode with an option to apply a light background to windows  Improvement of Antidote 10v3
• English: Antonyms dictionary
• English: semantic fields for proper nouns

Corrector interface

• New command to correct clipboard contents
• Corrector launches more rapidly
• Bold and italic type displayed in corrector’s text window*
• Correction commands available directly from tooltips
• New Replace command (with a suggestion)
• New Edit command (for alerts and discontinuities)
• Simplified Standardize command (for inconsistencies)
• Option to search other possible corrections
• Simplified tooltip messages
• Option to specify language of a passage
• Option to hide a passage in the other language (Bilingual only)

Language correction

• Detection of distant duplicate words (ex: I saw a dog, a cat and a dog)
• Recognition of quotes with multiple opening quotations marks
• New setting to exclude sequences of characters
• Alerts on certain rare or non-standard forms (ex: It should be alright) (English only)
• Recognition of derived words in English (antiviolence, educationalists)
• More precise analysis
• Bold and italic type factored into analysis
• Emoticons (including Unicode) factored into analysis
• Detection of inconsistencies among variants of the same family (e.g. color, colourful)
• Detection of inconsistencies among phonetic variants (e.g. calmar, calamar)
• Improved analysis of dialogues (French only)
• Anti-Oops!: option to disable corrections for particular contacts
• Correction memory extended to include temporary documents (e.g. emails)
• Improved settings for tags used to exclude text
• Setting for flagging abbreviated doublets (e.g. client-e-s) (French only)
• Setting for sensitivity to last names in the greeting of a letter (French only)
• Flag dangling prepositions, with settings (English only)
• Correction of contracted forms to non-contracted forms, with settings (English only)
• Correction of plural forms of acronyms with periods, with settings (English only)
• Correction capital letters following a colon, with settings (English only)
• Correction of commas following i.e. and e.g., with settings (English only)
• Addition of a period following the initial of a first name, with settings (English only)
• Setting for numbers under ten written in figures (English only)

Typography correction

• Correction of ellipses, with a setting
• Spacing settings for surnames with particles
• Spacing settings for names with initials
• More flexible settings for correction of numbers
• More flexible settings for correction of hyphens
• Correction of abbreviated decades, with settings (English only)
• Correction of multiplication symbol x, with settings (English only)
• Formatting of prime symbols for dimensions and coordinates, with settings (English only)
• Spacing settings for prime symbols for dimensions and coordinates (English only)
• Spacing settings for currency codes (e.g. CAD) (English only)

Style correction

• New Gender Neutrality filter
• New Readability filter
• Five readability indexes, including the new Antidote index
• Suggested synonyms to avoid repetitions
• Constructions filter: detection of multiple negatives
• Option to make language corrections in the Style view
• Simpler Style options: check boxes
• Option to sort longer sentences by length
• Instant display of number of detections in each filter
• Detection of 3,500 awkward constructions (English only)
• Wordiness (It stands to reason that…) (English only)
• Split infinitives (He likes to really show his might) (English only)
• Nominalizations (maximization -> maximize) (English only)
• Non-contracted forms (she is, he would etc.) (English only)

Other sections

• New Agreement filter for showing the links between grammatical agreements (e.g. subject-verb) (French only)
• Counts filter: calculates the text’s reading time, silently or out loud
• Semantics filter: display by lexical category for better precision
• New Languages filter isolates passages in each language

Definitions dictionary

• 12,000 new words and expressions (French: 8,000 words and expressions)  Improvement of Antidote 10v3
• Notes on 15,000 new difficulties (French: 2,300 new difficulties)  Improvement of Antidote 10v3
• New window for managing favourites
• Personalized, shareable word lists
• Translations for all words, in both directions, with examples (Bilingual only)
• Translations for all expressions (Bilingual only)
• Translations for all proverbs (Bilingual only)
• New search function: Translated as (Bilingual only)
• Add translations in personal dictionaries (Bilingual only)
• New World Heritage sites for 2017, 2018 and 2019  Improvement of Antidote 10v3
• Search proverbs by theme
• More powerful instant search menu (expressions, parts of expressions etc.)
• Relative frequency of variable inflections (e.g. fjord, fiord)
• Relative frequency of phonetic variants (e.g. calmar, calamar) (French only)
• New filters in search by criteria (Negated words (not edible, not to make…), etc.)
• Note on required prepositions before names of islands (e.g. Fiji) (French only)
• Note on appropriate article (a/an) for difficult words (e.g. history) (English only)
• Note on words which may require subjunctive (e.g. advice) (English only)
• Note on required use of infinitive or gerund after certain verbs (e.g. thank) (English only)
• Note on contracted form of auxiliaries (e.g. shan’t) (English only)
• Expanded presentation of inflections and phonetics (English only)

Synonyms dictionary

• 147,000 new synonyms (French: 17,000 new synonyms)  Improvement of Antidote 10v3
• Sort by relevance, frequency or length
• Display hierarchy of hyponyms and hypernyms
• Filter for synonyms without labels (not informal, not regional etc.)
• Filter for strong, weak or neutral synonyms
• Links to additional hyponyms

Combinations dictionary

• 80,000 new combinations (French: 84,000 new combinations)  Improvement of Antidote 10v3
• Translations for all combinations, with examples (1.7 million) (Bilingual only)
• Search within combinations and translations (Bilingual only)
• Notes on register

Guides

• Cleaner display
• 122 new articles (French: 24 new articles, including 11 new articles on gender neutrality in writing)
• Toggle between English and French articles
• Personalized article list

Multi-user synchronization

• Optional service (may incur extra cost)
• Sync between Windows, Mac and Linux devices
• Sync favourites
• Sync personal dictionaries

New client portal

• Centralized management of your Antidote licenses
• Identification by email and password
• Easy download access

Simplified installation

• Installation has been simplified for Windows and now requires fewer steps

Integrations

• Integration with Opera
• (Mac) Integration with Scrivener
• (Mac) Intégration with Ulysses  New feature of Antidote 10v3
• (Mac) Intégration with Bear  New feature of Antidote 10v3
• (Web) Intégration with Grav  New feature of Antidote 10v3
• (Web) Intégration with WoodWing  New feature of Antidote 10v3
• Ability to launch Antidote Web from a local writing software  New feature of Antidote 10v3