[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Couldn't find a time limited free trial, so have mailed them asking if they have such a thing. I suspect not

Yeah, they say NO FREE TRIALS on their website. Only for purchase.

I've been dabbling around a bit with Antidote 9. I'll probably have a more thorough review at a later date.

I like how it splits issues into 3 broad categories: Language + Typography + Style. Selecting each category highlights the text in the middle with the issues + lists errors on the right.

There are many false positives, but it's very easy to skip/ignore most of them in mass (because of the list form).

And they did implement quite a few of the things I mentioned:

• You're able to drill down many of the errors per category.
  
  • See Image #1 on left side. For example, I chose Error Types and then was able to choose Spelling > National Variants. And on the right side you only see the list of potential misspellings or odd word choices (British <-> American).
    
• When multiple of the same error occur, you can:
  
  • Ignore This Case + Ignore These Cases
    
    • It works just as good as I expected it to, and the wording was very intuitive.
  • See a list of errors and easily jump to the locations in the text.
    
    • If you want, you can double-click on the errors and it would auto-correct.
      
    • Annoyance: See Image #1 on right side. The little gray 14. Fantastic! 14 hits of "judgment"!
      
      But when you expand, it doesn't give you context. Just 14 "judgment" in a row. (So you easily lose which one you are correcting or jumped to.)
      
      This became an enormous issue with punctuation. You just get a giant list of 100s " in a row.
      
    • Annoyance #2: You aren't able to sort the lists. (Either alphabetical or # hits). It only displays the order they appear in the text.
      

There's also a "Repetition" checker:

• Pro: Usually the checkers I've seen only do exact word matches. This one takes into account root words: "appropriated" + "unappropriate" + "appropriator".
  
• Annoyance: The list on the Right Side is so hard to use. Again, it lists in order it occurs in the document! SO easy to lose your place.
  
  Would be nice to also sort by Alphabetical/# hits. For example, search by # hits so I can focus on the areas that repeat THE MOST. Or alphabetical so I can see "wow, I repeated 'appropriate' too close X many times throughout this document, maybe I should remember that".
  
• Annoyance #2: No idea what the "Range" slider is exactly (see VERY bottom right of image). Why doesn't it just tell me how many words/sentences away it'll look? Why not like TeXStudio where you can just set the numbers?
  
  I tried to tick the slider left/right, but it just caused the entire document to regenerate from scratch (too long, plus it removed my previously Ignored errors).
• Annoyance #3: There are only 2 highlight colors + 1 for the currently selected word. As you can see, the middle easily becomes a big jumbled mess of light blue/purple.

On a similar note, the "Inconsistencies" was very good and also took into account root words + hyphenation (so it would catch "honor" + "honoured" + "semi-honourably").

Because Antidote also breaks each word into parts of speech, it was able to catch some typos I otherwise never would've been able to find:

A few capital words in the middle of a sentence (turns out PDF had speck of dust in the upper right of 'h' turning it into 'H'):

Incredible that these would still be Here when she was gone! Incredible that she was going, actually going!

She had been so Hurt that she no longer felt pain, but her soul was nauseated.