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                     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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