Statistical information on the distribution of the two languages is displayed along the top of the correctorвЂ™s window, for example, 92% English, 8% French. If the passage is a quote or a dialogue in quotation marks, the flagged area in the margin will be green, with a speech bubble containing the language labels mentioned above. These options are also available from the Corrector menu. If the automatic language detection does not produce the expected result, you can manually specify the language of a particular passage or of the entire document by simply right clicking on the text and going to Language of the selection or Language of the document. Antidote automatically identifies a textвЂ™s predominant language, and flags passages in the other language using a blue tab in the left margin labelled fr (for French passages) or en (for English passages). These can consist of quotes, titles of books, etc.

Bilingual textsДЄ text written largely in French may also include passages in English, and vice versa. And the statistical prism compiles statistics on various linguistic parameters of the text and illustrates them graphically: the various error types, the most frequent words, the distribution of words according to their etymology, etc. The inspection prism lays bare the sentenceвЂ™s constituent elements: syntactic categories and functions, verb tenses, etc. The filters in the revision prism focus on certain pragmatic, logical and semantic aspects of the text. In addition, the French corrector includes various linguistic filters that let you examine your text from several angles. The Style view also highlights passages in which more equal representation of men and women is possible. They look for repetitions, long sentences, verbless sentences, various potentially awkward constructions, semantic redundancies, commonplace verbs, rare or long words, and many more.

To help polish your texts, AntidoteвЂ™s Style view highlights critical questions of style in the French language through its five filters. It can even flag inconsistent spellings of the same word within a text. Antidote can automatically correct your spelling to comply with either of these two standards, whichever you choose.

Clicking on AntidoteвЂ™s Help menu, under Other documents, you will find an HTML document entitled DГ©monstration de correction, which illustrates a wide range of the corrections that Antidote can make in French.Д®ver since the far-reaching reforms to French spelling proposed by the Conseil supГ©rieur de la langue franГ§aise in 1990, two standards of French orthography have coexisted, called graphie traditionnelle and graphie rectifiГ©e.

It can detect and correct errors involving spelling, hyphens and capitalization errors of grammatical agreement, including the notoriously difficult past participle homophones ( diffГ©rent/diffГ©rend, ces/ses, voir/voire, etc.) and other frequently confused words the correct way to write dates, numbers or addresses in French repetitions inconsistent spelling punctuation and spaces before punctuation marks etc.

Working in conjunction with its English counterpart, AntidoteвЂ™s French corrector is a powerful yet subtle tool that analyzes the linguistic, stylistic and typographical characteristics of your text вЂ“ whether it is written exclusively in French or includes passages in both languages.ДЄntidoteвЂ™s French corrector covers a wide range of language issues.

Managing Entries in the Personal Dictionaries.

Adding an Entry to a Personal Dictionary.

The impact of the corrector on the Style view.

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