Syntax Highlight on Mac offers an organized perspective of your document and can help refine your writing style.
This feature applies diverse colors to various parts of speech to make them stand out:
Adjectives in brown
Nouns in red
Adverbs in purple
Verbs in blue
Conjunctions in green
You can then easily identify instances of repetition or awkward phrasing.
Syntax Highlight does not modify your content in any way, and the highlighted parts of speech will not be visible in Preview, exported or printed documents. This feature is visible in the Editor only.
Enable Syntax Highlight
You can enable Syntax Highlight in four ways:
Settings pane
Editor → Syntax
Focus Menu
Show Syntax
Editor’s Title Bar
Select the Focus dropdown
Keyboard shortcut
⇧⌘D
Parts of Speech
You can specify which parts of speech are highlighted by selecting/deselecting options found in Preferences, Menu, and Focus dropdowns.
In the example below, only nouns and verbs have been enabled from the Focus dropdown. This will help you spot weak verbs or repetitions.
Languages
Syntax Highlight is available for documents/text in the following languages:
EnDeFrEsItRu
Working With Syntax Highlight
There is no right or wrong way to work with this feature, but from the user’s feedback, it seems that enabling Syntax Highlight during the editing phase is the most common. Of course, you can keep it ON at any time in your writing process.
Syntax Highlight pairs effectively with Focus Mode, helping you grasp the structure down to the sentence level:
A similar feature to Syntax Highlight that can be activated concurrently is Style Check, pointing out fillers, clichés, and redundancies.
For further tips on how to write, you can check those various blog posts from our website, grouped in our Writer How To.
Syntax Highlight on iOS offers an organized perspective of your document and can help refine your writing style.
This feature applies diverse colors to various parts of speech to make them stand out:
Adjectives in brown
Nouns in red
Adverbs in purple
Verbs in blue
Conjunctions in green
You can then easily identify instances of repetition or awkward phrasing.
Syntax Highlight does not modify your content in any way, and the highlighted parts of speech will not be visible in Preview, exported or printed documents. This feature is visible in the Editor only.
Enable Syntax Highlight
On iOS devices you can enable (or disable) Syntax Highlight via:
AA menu
Show Syntax
Settings pane
Editor → SyntaxEnable All | Last Used
Keyboard shortcut
⇧⌘D
Parts of Speech
You can specify which parts of speech are highlighted by selecting/deselecting options found in Settings.
In the example below, only nouns and verbs have been enabled. This will help you spot weak verbs or repetitions.
Languages
Syntax Highlight is available for documents/text in the following languages:
EnDeFrEsItRu
Working With Syntax Highlight
There is no right or wrong way to work with this feature, but from the user’s feedback, it seems that enabling Syntax Highlight during the editing phase is the most common. Of course, you can keep it ON at any time in your writing process.
Syntax Highlight pairs effectively with Focus Mode, helping you grasp the structure down to the sentence level.
A similar feature to Syntax Highlight that can be activated concurrently is Style Check, crossing out fillers, clichés, and redundancies.
For further tips on how to write, you can check those various blog posts from our website, grouped in our Writer How To.
Syntax Highlight on iPadOS offers an organized perspective of your document and can help refine your writing style.
This feature applies diverse colors to various parts of speech to make them stand out:
Adjectives in brown
Nouns in red
Adverbs in purple
Verbs in blue
Conjunctions in green
You can then easily identify instances of repetition or awkward phrasing.
Syntax Highlight does not modify your content in any way, and the highlighted parts of speech will not be visible in Preview, exported or printed documents. This feature is visible in the Editor only.
Enable Syntax Highlight
On your iPad you can enable (or disable) Syntax Highlight via:
AA menu
Show Syntax
Settings pane
Editor → SyntaxEnable All | Last Used
Keyboard shortcut
⇧⌘D
Parts of Speech
You can specify which parts of speech are highlighted by selecting/deselecting options found in Settings.
In the example below, only nouns and verbs have been enabled. This will help you spot weak verbs or repetitions.
Languages
Syntax Highlight is available for documents/text in the following languages:
EnDeFrEsItRu
Working With Syntax Highlight
There is no right or wrong way to work with this feature, but from the user’s feedback, it seems that enabling Syntax Highlight during the editing phase is the most common. Of course, you can keep it ON at any time in your writing process.
Syntax Highlight pairs effectively with Focus Mode, helping you grasp the structure down to the sentence level.
A similar feature to Syntax Highlight that can be activated concurrently is Style Check, crossing out fillers, clichés, and redundancies.
For further tips on how to write, you can check those various blog posts from our website, grouped in our Writer How To.
Syntax Control on Windows offers an organized perspective of your document and can help refine your writing style.
This feature applies diverse colors to various parts of speech to make them stand out:
Adjectives in brown
Nouns in red
Adverbs in purple
Verbs in blue
Conjunctions in green
You can then easily identify instances of repetition or awkward phrasing.
Syntax Control does not modify your content in any way, and the highlighted parts of speech will not be visible in Preview, exported or printed documents. This feature is visible in the Editor only.
Enable Syntax Control
You can enable Syntax Control from the Focus menu:
Parts of Speech
You can specify which parts of speech are highlighted by selecting/deselecting options (a check mark will appear).
In the example ajectives, verbs, and conjuctions have been enabled.
Languages
iA Writer for Windows supports Syntax Control for English.
If your document contains non-English text, you may see the following warning dialog box at the bottom of the Editor:
The language of the current file does not seem to be supported by Syntax Control.
Working With Syntax Control
There is no right or wrong way to work with this feature, but from the user’s feedback, it seems that enabling Syntax Control during the editing phase is the most common. Of course, you can keep it ON at any time in your writing process.
Syntax Control pairs effectively with Focus Mode, helping you grasp the structure down to the sentence level:
A similar feature that can be activated concurrently is Style Check, pointing out fillers, clichés, and redundancies.
For further tips on how to write, you can check those various blog posts from our website, grouped in our Writer How To.
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