iA Writer for Mac includes iA’s signature Syntax Highlighting feature.
Highlighting syntax provides you with a more structured view of your document and can help you spot typos and improve your writing style. We have grouped a collection of blogposts on that matter, you can find more tips on this category: How to Write.
On Mac you can enable Syntax Highlight in one of four ways:
| Preferences pane | Preferences → Editor → Syntax: Enable All | Last Used |
| Focus menu | Focus → Show Syntax |
| Editor | Select Focus dropdown |
| Keyboard shortcut | ⇧ ⌘ D |
You can specify which parts of speech are highlighted by selecting/deselecting options found in Preferences, Menu and Focus dropdowns.
For example in the Focus dropdown shown below you can see Nouns and Verbs are selected:
In the text both parts are clearly identified by the corresponding colour:
Syntax Highlight also works well in conjunction with Focus Mode allowing you to see your structure down to sentence-level:
Syntax Highlight leverages system-level libraries and is available for documents/text in the following languages:
En De Fr Es It Ru
There is no right or wrong way to work with the feature enabled. Different writers all have different needs and workflows. Since Syntax Highlight can be quickly toggled using ⇧ ⌘ D you can easily switch from working with Syntax Hightlight to not.
Importantly, Syntax Highlight does not make any changes to your content and you’ll never see the parts of speech highlighted in Preview, printed or exported documents…
If you are not familiar with iA Writer yet, you can check out Style Check, a similar feature to Syntax Highlight providing you suggestions to improve your text.
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Highlighting syntax provides you with a more structured view on your document and it can help you spot typos and improve your writing style. We have grouped a collection of blogpost on that matter, you can find more tips on this category: 
In the text both parts are clearly identified by their corresponding colours.
Syntax Highlight also works well in conjunction with Focus Mode allowing you to see your structure down to sentence-level:
Highlighting syntax provides you with a more structured view of your document and can help you spot typos and improve your writing style. We have grouped a collection of blogpost on that matter, you can find more tips on this category: 
You can specify which parts of speech are highlighted by checking/unchecking options found under the toggle switch.
For example in the menu shown below you can see Nouns and Verbs are selected:
In the text both parts are clearly identified by their corresponding colours.
Syntax Highlight also works well in conjunction with Focus Mode allowing you to see your structure down to sentence-level:
