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Connectix Agent

The Antidote Agent is installed in the menu bar.

Use

  1. Select the word to be looked up or the text to be corrected.
  2. In the menu bar, click the Antidote Agent icon to open its menu.
  3. From the menu, select the desired Antidote resource.

The Agent menu can be used in place of Antidote’s floating menu bar or access via the context menu; it is functionally equivalent to them.

Antidote Toolbar

You can access all Antidote’s resources from the toolbar, including specific dictionaries and guides by clicking the chevron beside the corresponding resource icon and selecting from the options in the menu.

The toolbar floats above your screen. Click and drag the title to move it around.

If you close the toolbar, you can restore it by clicking the Antidote Agent and selecting Show the Antidote bar.

Antidote Agent

The Antidote Agent is represented by a monochrome flask icon in the menu bar, near the top right corner of your screen. Click the icon to open a menu from which you can access all Antidote’s resources and more.

To correct a passage or to look up a word:

  1. Select the text.
  2. Click the Antidote Agent icon.
  3. Select the resource you want to use from the menu.

You can use this menu to launch Antidote from any application you are writing in. If Antidote integrates with the software in question, any changes you make in the corrector will be applied automatically to the source text. Otherwise, you need to copy the corrected text and paste it back into the original document.

You will see a flask icon with an exclamation point if the Antidote Agent is not functioning properly. Click the icon and select Quit from the bottom of the menu, then reopen the Connectix utility from the Applications folder.

Services

You can access Antidote’s resources from any software that is compatible with macOS Services.

Enable Antidote in Services

You first need to enable Antidote’s resources before they will appear in the macOS Services menu. You only need to do this once. Pour faire apparaitre les outils d’Antidote dans les Services macOS, vous devez d’abord les activer. Cette opération n’est requise qu’une seule fois.

  1. Select Services from the application menu.
  2. Choose Services Settings from the sub-menu.
  3. Select Services in the left-hand panel of the settings window.
  4. Select Text in the right-hand panel to expand the list of services, then tick off those you want to enable:
    • Antidote — Corrector
    • Antidote — Dictionaries
    • Antidote — Guides
  5. Click Done

Use Services to Launch Antidote

Select the text you want to correct or the word you want to look up, choose Services from the application menu, then select from Antidote’s resources in the sub-menu.

Some formatting may be lost when the text is sent to Antidote.

Dock

You can access all Antidote’s resources from the dock.

Accessing Antidote’s Resources From the Dock

  1. Open Antidote.
  2. Select the text you want to correct or the word you want to look up.
  3. Click and hold Antidote’s app icon in the dock, then select the tool you want to use from the menu.

Particularities

  • If a block of text is highlighted, Antidote will only correct this section.
  • If the cursor is within a block of text, the correction will begin on the sentence where the cursor is and will continue until the end of the block.
  • If no block of text is selected, Antidote will correct the whole document.

Antidote displays all corrected blocks of text in sequence.