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1.1       root        1: .TH STYLE 1 
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: style  \-  analyze surface characteristics of a document
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B style
                      6: [
                      7: .B \-ml
                      8: ] [
                      9: .B \-mm
                     10: ] [
                     11: .B \-a
                     12: ] [
                     13: .B \-e
                     14: ] [
                     15: .B \-l
                     16: num ] [
                     17: .B \-r
                     18: num ] [
                     19: .B \-p
                     20: ] [
                     21: .B \-P
                     22: ]
                     23: file ...
                     24: .LP
                     25: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     26: .I Style
                     27: analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style
                     28: of a document.
                     29: It reports on readability, sentence length and
                     30: structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers.
                     31: Because
                     32: .I style
                     33: runs
                     34: .I deroff
                     35: before looking at the text, formatting
                     36: header files should be included as part of the input.
                     37: The default macro package
                     38: .B \-ms
                     39: may be overridden with the flag
                     40: .B \-mm.
                     41: The flag
                     42: .BR \-ml ,
                     43: which causes 
                     44: .B deroff
                     45: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
                     46: non-sentences.
                     47: The other options are used to locate sentences with certain characteristics.
                     48: .TP
                     49: .B \-a
                     50: print all sentences with their length and readability index.
                     51: .TP
                     52: .B \-e
                     53: print all sentences that begin with an expletive.
                     54: .TP
                     55: .B \-p
                     56: print all sentences that contain a passive verb.
                     57: .TP
                     58: .BI \-l num
                     59: print all sentences longer than
                     60: .IR num .
                     61: .TP
                     62: .BI \-r num
                     63: print all sentences whose readability index is greater than
                     64: .IR num .
                     65: .TP
                     66: .B \-P
                     67: print parts of speech of the words in the document.
                     68: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     69: deroff(1), diction(1)
                     70: .SH BUGS
                     71: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
                     72: incorrect sentence breaks.

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