I want to trim out my -ly adverbs. Is there a way to perform a word-search for partial words? I think something like a search for “<wild-card such as *>ly + space” would do the trick, but I don’t know of any wild-card special characters.
Thanks,
Shawn
Edit / Find / Project Search
Left click on the magnifying glass next to the search field to tune the search criterias as per my screenshot.
The simplest regex for this is [a-z]+ly– though it can be refined further, if needed.
Yup, RegEx. Otherwise writing avant-garde poetry becomes a nightmare.
fly only holy plywood
lyrical hillbilly lynx!
apply july’s melancholy glyphs
bully polyvinyl polyps!
jellybean apocalypse…
As I said, you can refine: [a-z]+ly\b, say. And so on…
RegEx is the last “Operator” choice, half cut-off in my otherwise useless reply.
Also worth mentioning: Linguistic Focus
⌃⌘L
(“20.3.2 Linguistic Focus”, Scrivener manual p.517)
Hey, that’s better than most Vogon poetry!
