style(1) General Commands Manual style(1)Name
style - analyze surface characteristics of a document
Syntax
style [-ml] [-mm] [-a] [-e] [-l num] [-r num] [-p] [-P] file...
Description
The command analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style of a document. It reports on readability, sentence length and struc-
ture, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers. Because runs before looking at the text, formatting header files should be
included as part of the input. The default macro package -ms may be overridden with the flag -mm. The flag -ml, which causes to skip
lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of non-sentences. The other options are used to locate sentences with certain
characteristics.
Options-a Displays all sentences with their length and readability index.
-e Displays all sentences that begin with an expletive.
-l num
Displays all sentences longer than num.
-ml
Skips lists in document.
-mm
Overrides the default macro package -ms.
-P Displays parts of speech of the words in the document.
-p Displays all sentences that contain a passive verb.
-r num
Displays all sentences whose readability index is greater than num.
Restrictions
Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks.
See Alsoderoff(1), diction(1)style(1)
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diction(1) General Commands Manual diction(1)NAME
diction, explain, suggest - Prints wordy sentences and looks them up in an interactive thesaurus.
SYNOPSIS
diction [-fpattern_file] [-k] [-ma] [-me] [-ml] [-ms] [-n] [file...]
explain
suggest
The diction command finds all sentences in an English language document that contain phrases from a database of bad or wordy diction. The
explain command is an interactive thesaurus for the English language phrases found by the diction command and only for those phrases.
The diction command reads from standard in if no file operand is provided.
The suggest command is a synonym for explain.
OPTIONS
Names a user-created pattern file to be used in addition to the default file. Passes the -k option to the deroff command. The -k option
keeps blocks of text specified nroff by requests or macros; for example, the request. Passes the -ma option to deroff. The -ma option
interprets nroff man macros only. Overrides the default nroff -ms macro package. Causes deroff to skip lists; should be used if a docu-
ment contains many lists of nonsentences. Overrides the default nroff -ms macro package. Suppresses use of the default file (used with
-f). Only the user-created pattern file is used.
DESCRIPTION
Each phrase found by the diction command is enclosed in [ ] (brackets). Because diction runs deroff before looking at the text, include
formatting header files as part of the input.
Before using the explain command, use the diction command to obtain a list of poorly worded phrases. When you use the explain command, the
system prompts you for a phrase and responds with a grammatically acceptable alternative. You can continue typing phrases, or you can exit
by pressing the End-of-File key sequence.
The explain command can also take input redirected from a file. No other command line arguments are valid.
NOTES
Use of nonstandard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks. In particular, diction does not understand -me.
FILES
Default pattern file. Thesaurus used by the explain command.
SEE ALSO
Commands: deroff(1), nroff(1)diction(1)
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