Managing Customizations
Adding a new personal dictionary or a new list of rules
Initially, Antidote provides an empty personal dictionary (“My words”) and an empty list of personal rules (“My rules”), both ready for your additions. You can add other dictionaries and lists as needed.
Make sure the sidebar is visible (in the menu bar, click View on a Mac or File in Windows and select Show sidebar). Click the button in the bottom left-hand corner of the customizations window and select an option according to the type of customization you want to add. The new element will appear in the sidebar.
- Different icons are used for the personal dictionaries () and the lists of custom rules (), allowing you to tell them apart easily.
- The number of entries in each list is displayed to the right of the list name.
- With subscription A small cloud icon () indicates that the element will be synchronized (see Synchronization) across all your Antidote applications.
Hover the mouse over a personal dictionary or list of rules to display the button, which will let you apply one of the following actions:
Rename
Rename your personal dictionaries and lists of rules at any time to better represent their content. Simply type the new name in the title field.
- You can also double-click the name of a dictionary or a list of rules.
Activate/Disable
Activate or disable a personal dictionary or a list of rules according to your correction requirements.
- Antidote’s corrector and dictionaries will recognize the words in personal dictionaries you have enabled, and will flag those in disabled dictionaries as unknown.
- The corrector will flag detections for enabled rules lists while ignoring rules in lists that have been disabled.
Delete
Delete the source file corresponding to a list of custom rules or a personal dictionary, or simply remove it from the customizations window. If synchronization is active for the selected element, it will be deleted from all devices linked to your Druide account.
Activate/Disable synchronization
Synchronizing a personal dictionary or a list of custom rules will send their content to Antidote Web, as well as to any other devices linked to your Druide account. To stop synchronizing a given element, select Disable synchronization. The selected element will be deleted from Antidote Web, as well as from all devices except the one currently in use, which will retain a local copy.
- Synchronization is an optional service provided by Druide informatique. See the Synchronization chapter for more details.
Get information
See when the dictionary or list of rules was created and last modified, along with a description of it.
Sorting the entries in a list
Click the button above the list of entries within a personal dictionary or list of rules to sort them according to the following criteria:
Word or expression: select this option to display the words and expressions in ascending or descending alphabetical order, depending on the secondary option selected in the bottom section of the menu.
Category: select this option to display entries by syntactical category, in ascending (adjective, noun, verb, etc.) or descending (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) alphabetical order, depending on the secondary option selected in the bottom section of the menu.
- The syntactic category (adj., n., pr. n., v., etc.) is displayed to the right of each entry in the list.
Language: select this option to display words and expressions according to their language.
- The language is shown to the right (fr, en or bl).
Warning: select this option to display entries that require your review either at the end of the list (by choosing the secondary option Ascending) or at the beginning of the list (by choosing Descending).
- The icon is displayed to the left of the entries in question.