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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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        !            18: .\"     @(#)style.1    6.2 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
        !            19: .\"
        !            20: .TH STYLE 1 "%Q"
        !            21: .AT 3
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: style  \-  analyze surface characteristics of a document
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .B style
        !            26: [
        !            27: .B \-ml
        !            28: ] [
        !            29: .B \-mm
        !            30: ] [
        !            31: .B \-a
        !            32: ] [
        !            33: .B \-e
        !            34: ] [
        !            35: .B \-l
        !            36: num ] [
        !            37: .B \-r
        !            38: num ] [
        !            39: .B \-p
        !            40: ] [
        !            41: .B \-P
        !            42: ]
        !            43: file ...
        !            44: .LP
        !            45: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            46: .I Style
        !            47: analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style
        !            48: of a document.
        !            49: It reports on readability, sentence length and
        !            50: structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers.
        !            51: Because
        !            52: .I style
        !            53: runs
        !            54: .I deroff
        !            55: before looking at the text, formatting
        !            56: header files should be included as part of the input.
        !            57: The default macro package
        !            58: .B \-ms
        !            59: may be overridden with the flag
        !            60: .B \-mm.
        !            61: The flag
        !            62: .BR \-ml ,
        !            63: which causes 
        !            64: .B deroff
        !            65: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
        !            66: non-sentences.
        !            67: The other options are used to locate sentences with certain characteristics.
        !            68: .TP
        !            69: .B \-a
        !            70: print all sentences with their length and readability index.
        !            71: .TP
        !            72: .B \-e
        !            73: print all sentences that begin with an expletive.
        !            74: .TP
        !            75: .B \-p
        !            76: print all sentences that contain a passive verb.
        !            77: .TP
        !            78: .BI \-l num
        !            79: print all sentences longer than
        !            80: .IR num .
        !            81: .TP
        !            82: .BI \-r num
        !            83: print all sentences whose readability index is greater than
        !            84: .IR num .
        !            85: .TP
        !            86: .B \-P
        !            87: print parts of speech of the words in the document.
        !            88: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            89: deroff(1), diction(1)
        !            90: .SH BUGS
        !            91: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
        !            92: incorrect sentence breaks.

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