Weak words in Linguistic Focus

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I wish there was a focus mode for weak words like “really, very, things, stuff…” It might even be nice for the exact list of weak words to be customizable by the user.

Being able to display the words with some kind of underlining instead of just faded would be nice.
In the case of weak words, I’d even like it to be permanently turned on so it reminds me to double check if I really want to use such a weak word.

Also, and I know grammar checking tries to do this, but passive voice would be another great option for linguistic focus.

One other thing… if I have the linguistic panel open and then enter the shortcut for showing it ( cntrl-apple-L) it should hide panel. Right now it just disables it.

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This may help you: https://literatureandlatte.com/web/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41262&p=244574

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Are there any updates on the idea of adding a “week words” option to the linguistic focus section of the application?

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You could try deleting these words from the dictionary, That way the spelling checker will flag them.

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In lieu of L&L making this change–if you have a list of words you are interested in finding and highlighting in your project, you can search for them yourself using Project Search. See this post for instructions on how to do it: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=335433#p335433

Best,
Jim

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Actually, I believe Linguistic Focus on the Mac is provided by Apple, so you need to persuade Apple to make the changes.

:smiley:

Mark