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1.1 ! root 1: .\" @(#)diction.1 6.2 (Berkeley) 5/10/86 ! 2: .\" ! 3: .TH DICTION 1 "May 10, 1986" ! 4: .AT 3 ! 5: .SH NAME ! 6: diction, explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction ! 7: .SH SYNOPSIS ! 8: .B diction ! 9: [ ! 10: .B \-ml ! 11: ] [ ! 12: .B \-mm ! 13: ] [ ! 14: .B \-n ! 15: ] [ ! 16: .B \-f ! 17: pfile ] ! 18: file ... ! 19: .br ! 20: .B explain ! 21: .LP ! 22: .SH DESCRIPTION ! 23: .I Diction ! 24: finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases ! 25: from a data base of bad or wordy diction. ! 26: Each phrase is bracketed with [ ]. ! 27: Because ! 28: .I diction ! 29: runs ! 30: .I deroff ! 31: before looking at the text, formatting ! 32: header files should be included as part of the input. ! 33: The default macro package ! 34: .B \-ms ! 35: may be overridden with the flag ! 36: .B \-mm. ! 37: The flag ! 38: .B \-ml ! 39: which causes ! 40: .B deroff ! 41: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of ! 42: non-sentences. ! 43: The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file ! 44: with ! 45: .B \-f ! 46: .I pfile. ! 47: If the flag ! 48: .B \-n ! 49: is also supplied the default file will be suppressed. ! 50: .PP ! 51: .I Explain ! 52: is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. ! 53: .SH "SEE ALSO" ! 54: deroff(1) ! 55: .SH BUGS ! 56: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause ! 57: incorrect sentence breaks. ! 58: In particular, ! 59: .I diction ! 60: doesn't grok ! 61: .B \-me.
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