Impossible to use Antidote Fench/English corrector with Novelcrafter.
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Brainy Crocodile
When using the corrector with NovelCrafter prose editor there are several bugs making it so difficult, I prefer to copy the prose into Words and copy/paste it back into the NovelCrafter editor, piece by piece between the scene beats.
Here are the problems:
—The presence of DIVs like the scene-beat boxes and the Section boxes causes gaps between the editor and the corrector that doesn’t where the corrections must be applied. It would be so easy to have the option of hiding them all (not only collapsing them), that would probably fix the problem.
—The “link” between the editor and the corrector gets cut so often, it’s virtually impossible to use it with NovelCrafter (That I don’t know why).
In case you think it’s an “Antidote’s problem”, please note that it works perfectly with several web-based editors, like Deepl or Google Docs. It works in this text box too ;-)
spaceemotion
under review
Can you see if the Antidote text editor also works on platforms like ChatGPT, Notion or Claude.ai? We're using a fairly popular editor framework (and not something whipped up from scratch), so a lot of these tools should have support. Grammarly, ProWritingAid and LanguageTool seem to work fine, so I don't know what Antidote is doing behind the scenes.
B
Brainy Crocodile
spaceemotion
I tried Antidote on the three suggested systems:
• On ChatGPT:
o I lost the link when switching windows. Antidote opens a window for the corrector with a link to the text that needs to be corrected. This link ensures that the changes and corrections made in the corrector are reflected in real time in the original document. Conversely, if I change the text in the original document, it is replicated in the corrector. When I open the dictionary (which opens in a separate window) to look up a synonym or verify a conjugation, sometimes, when I return to the corrector, the link is broken. In such cases, I need to close the corrector, return to the document, and reopen the corrector.
o I did not experience any gap issues.
• On Claude:
o The document <—> corrector link seems stable.
o No gap issues.
• On Notion:
o The document <—> corrector link seems stable.
o I was warned of a potential gap issue (see attached screenshot). Sometimes, the issue is not flagged, and when the automatic correction for typographical errors is triggered, certain characters can be deleted or replaced by typographical symbols in the original document.
B
Brainy Crocodile
By the way, if I delete all Scene beats from the prose editor, I don't experience the problem of gaps. If we had the option to hide them, not just collapse them, this problem would probably be solved.