Antidote 9 Version History - Mac

Antidote 9 v5.3 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v5.1 :

General Improvements

  • Antidote opens more quickly
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

New Integrations

  • Compatibility with macOS 10.14.0 (Mojave)
    • Integration with Mail 12.0
    • Integration with Safari 12.0
  • Integration with Firefox 62
  • Integration with Firefox ESR 60
  • Integration with Google Chrome 70
  • Integration with Illustrator 2018 (22.0)
  • Integration with InCopy 2018 (13.0)
  • Integration with InDesign 2018 (13.0)
  • Integration with LibreOffice 6.0
  • Integration with Safari 12.0 (macOS 10.12 and 10.13)
  • Integration with Thunderbird 60

Antidote 9 v5.1 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v5 :

New Integrations

  • JS-Connect – (for developers) API for integration of Antidote buttons directly into Web pages
  • Compatibility with High Sierra (macOS 10.13.0 and 10.13.1)
  • Integration with Firefox 55
  • Integration with Google Chrome 60
  • Integration with Mail 11.0 and 11.1
  • Preliminary adaptations for MS Office 2016 versions 16.6 to 16.8 (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)
  • Integration with NeoOffice 2017.3
  • Integration with Safari 11.0

Improvements to Integrations

  • LibreOffice
    • Removal of unwarranted error messages​
  • Thunderbird
    • Preservation of selected text after a synchronization

General Improvements

  • Anti-Oops!
    • Removal of unwarranted error messages
  • Improved Stability
  • Various minor fixes

Antidote 9 v5 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v4.1 :

General Improvements

Corrector

  • Refined language detection
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts
  • Anti-Oops!: new keyboard shortcut to send an email (Cmd-Shift-D)
  • New keyboard shortcut to browse through the tabs in Style view
  • Improved preservation of the state between two correction sessions

Dictionaries

  • Automatic detection of the right language for multiword searches
  • Improved ordering of results for multiword search
  • Addition of new World Heritage Sites
  • Recognition of territorial reform in France
  • Updated encoding of links to Termium

Various Improvements

  • Personal dictionary
    • Import from UTF-16 documents
    • Addition of an existing dictionary by double-clicking on the file
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Improved correction of capitals (He went up North. > He went up north.)
  • More alerts for uncommon word sequences for speakers with low ability (We feel can’t wait until then.)
  • Improved correction of commas after introductory expressions (When we finally arrived he had left. > When we finally arrived, he had left.)
  • Alerts for possible incorrect question marks (I need more time? > I need more time.)
  • Alert for indicative instead of subjunctive (If I was you, I would try. > If I were you, I would try.)
  • Anti-Oops! – Detection of more mentions of attachments
  • New setting for spacing between sentences
  • New setting for flagging words whose meanings change with a capital letter

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 2000 new words (e.g. clicktivism, greenwashing, Latinx)

Guides

  • Updated
  • 7 new articles

New Features for French

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Improved recognition of dates
  • Correction of short greetings (sincère salutation > Sincères salutations,)
  • Improved correction of capitalized words at the beginning of a sentence
  • New setting for correction of capitalized words at the beginning of a sentence

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 200 new words (e.g. climatonégationnisme, ludifier, nihonium)

Guides

  • Updated
  • 5 new articles
  • Improved search when ligatures are present

New Integrations

  • Preliminary adaptations for macOS 10.13 High Sierra
    • Preliminary adaptations for Mail 11
    • Preliminary adaptations for Safari 11
  • Handling of Markdown tags
  • Integration with Grav (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari)
  • Integration with Firefox 54
  • Integration with Firefox ESR 52
  • Integration with Google Chrome 59
  • Integration with QuarkXPress 2017
  • Integration with Thunderbird 52

Improvements to Integrations

  • Firefox
    • Complete rewrite of integration
    • Faster loading of Web pages
  • Google Documents
    • Improved handling of large documents
  • LibreOffice (Writer)
    • Recognition of comments and text zones
    • Faster correction of footnotes and frames
  • MS Excel
    • Ability to correct a single column or row
  • Thunderbird
    • Recognition of delayed sending
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

Antidote 9 v4.1 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v4 :

New Integrations

  • Integration with Firefox 50
  • Integration with Google Chrome 54
  • Integration with llustrator CC 2017 (21.0)
  • Integration with InCopy CC 2017 (12.0)
  • Integration with InDesign CC 2017 (12.0)
  • Integration with LibreOffice 5.2
  • Integration with Postbox 5.0

Improvements to Integrations

  • Services Menu in Sierra
    • No more need to copy and paste corrected text in certain contexts​
  • Postbox
    • Quick Reply mode supported
  • Thunderbird
    • “Error 6030” eliminated in several contexts
    • “The corrector did not receive any text” message eliminated in several contexts

General Improvements

  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

Cumulative Improvements to Integrations (form previous connector updates)

  • Compatibility with Sierra (macOS 10.12.0 and 10.12.1)
    • Integration with Mail 10.0 and 10.1
    • Integration with MS Outlook 2016
    • Integration with Safari 10.0
    • Integration with TextEdit 1.12
    • Integration with Keynote 7.0
    • Integration with Pages 6.0
  • Integration with Safari 10.0 (macOS 10.10 and 10.11)
  • InDesign
    • Improved handling of grouped zones
  • MS Outlook 2011
    • “Error 6010” message eliminated
  • MS Outlook 2016
    • Improved handling of hyperlinks
  • Safari
    • “Error 6004” message eliminated in various contexts
  • Thunderbird
    • Improved stability when communicating with Antidote

Antidote 9 v4 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v3 :

General New Features and Improvements

Corrector

  • Refined language detection
    • Detection of different languages within the same sentence (with quotation marks or parentheses)
    • Correction of quotation marks according to the typographic conventions of the surrounding text’s language
    • Improved recognition of words from personal dictionaries
  • New control allowing corrections to be disabled in one language
  • The option to display percentages in the Style view

Anti-Oops!

  • New setting to turn off verification in one language
  • Improved recognition of personal dictionaries

Other

  • Better display on monitors with high resolution (HiDPI)
  • Fix for instances of external resources not being retained
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Detection of discontinuity (missing or superfluous words, etc.)
  • New setting for flagging unknown alphanumeric sequences (e.g. LOG-5)
  • New setting for flagging abbreviated decades (e.g. ’90s)

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 7,000 new words (102,000 in total) (e.g. bibimbap, botnet, crowdsourcing)
  • 15,000 new synonyms
  • New etymological notes, now more than 200 in total
  • New “Location” field for more accurate definitions of names of places
  • New links to the guides from the definitions

Guides

  • Updated
  • 6 new articles
  • New “Language Matters” guide explaining some complex subjects

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate correction
  • Links to definitions from the corrector’s tooltips
  • New settings for ‹ single French quotation marks ›​
  • New setting for spacing around dashes

Dictionaries

  • Updates to all dictionaries
  • 600 new words (bibimbap, juricomptable, supraluminique)
  • 1,400 additions to the “Difficulté” section
  • New “Location” field for more accurate definitions of names of places

Guides

  • Updated
  • 4 new articles

New Integrations

  • Preliminary adaptations for macOS 10.12 Sierra
  • Preliminary adaptations for Mail 10
  • Preliminary adaptations for Safari 10

Improvements to Integrations

  • Dock Menu, Services Menu
    • Fewer “did not receive text” messages in long documents
  • MS Outlook
    • Improved stability

Cumulative Integration Improvements (from previous connector updates)

  • Integration with WordPerfect X8
  • Firefox, Google Chrome
    • Improved handling of HTML lists
    • Fewer communication error messages
    • Clearer presentation of error messages
  • Google Documents
    • Better integration
    • “The corrector did not receive any text” message eliminated in various contexts
  • LibreOffice
    • Accelerated synchronization with long documents
    • Improved correction of footnotes
    • Faster integration when there are several text boxes
  • Thunderbird
    • Integration entirely rewritten
    • Removal of erroneous “email modified” messages in long emails
    • Removal of overdetection of spaces in saved draft emails
    • Possibility to include signatures
    • Improved stability
  • WordPerfect
    • Inopportune "Euro" Symbols removed during correction
  • Various Improvements
    • « The Antidote Agent could not be launched » message when loging in eliminated
    • Correction of cases where the research complements weren't kept when restarting the computer
    • Reduction of the use of the processor by The Antidote Agent

Antidote 9 v3 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v2 :

New Features for English

  • More accurate corrections
  • Faster Anti-Oops! start-up speed
  • 47 new etymological notes
  • Guides updated
  • Various minor fixes in the dictionaries

New Features for French

  • More accurate corrections
  • 19 new etymological notes
  • Guides updated (including a new Language Matters article)

Improvements to Integrations

  • Word
    • faster synchronization
  • Mail 9
    • no longer corrects quoted messages, fewer false alerts of modified message
  • Outlook 2016
    • improved management of windows

Various Improvements

  • Specific improvements to language identification
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes

Antidote 9 v2 Mac

Features the following improvements on Antidote 9 v1 :

New Features for English

Corrector

  • More accurate corrections
  • Correction of double negatives (ex.: I don’t have no time for this.)
  • Correction of non-paired quotation marks and parentheses
  • Correction of position of closing parenthesis relative to period
  • Improved handling of some words beginning with a capital letter

Dictionaries

  • 900 new words (acrospire, Arecibo, palsy-walsy)
  • Dictionaries updated
  • Improved display of some IPA phonetic transcriptions
  • Various minor fixes

Guides

  • Several articles updated
  • One new article (“Middle English”)

New Features for French

Corrector

  • More accurate corrections
  • Personal dictionaries: improved handling of capital letters with accents

Dictionaries

  • 100 new words (bistronomie, orexigène, polyclonal)
  • Dictionaries updated
  • Various minor fixes

Guides

  • Several articles updated
  • One new article

New Integrations

  • Compatibility with macOS 10.11.2
  • Integration with Firefox 42
  • Integration with Google Chrome 47
  • Integration with Mail 9.2 (macOS 10.11.2)
  • Integration with Pages 5.5 et 5.6 sur macOS 10.11

Improvements to Integrations

  • BBEdit 11, TextWrangler 5
    • Antidote toolbar displayed
  • Google Documents
    • fix for problem relating to misplaced corrections
  • Mail
    • improved stability

Various Improvements

  • Anti-Oops!
    • fixed unnecessary intervention
  • Specific improvements to language identification
  • Improved stability
  • Various minor fixes