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1.1 ! root 1: .\" @(#)style.1 6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85 ! 2: .\" ! 3: .TH STYLE 1 "April 29, 1985" ! 4: .AT 3 ! 5: .SH NAME ! 6: style \- analyze surface characteristics of a document ! 7: .SH SYNOPSIS ! 8: .B style ! 9: [ ! 10: .B \-ml ! 11: ] [ ! 12: .B \-mm ! 13: ] [ ! 14: .B \-a ! 15: ] [ ! 16: .B \-e ! 17: ] [ ! 18: .B \-l ! 19: num ] [ ! 20: .B \-r ! 21: num ] [ ! 22: .B \-p ! 23: ] [ ! 24: .B \-P ! 25: ] ! 26: file ... ! 27: .LP ! 28: .SH DESCRIPTION ! 29: .I Style ! 30: analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style ! 31: of a document. ! 32: It reports on readability, sentence length and ! 33: structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers. ! 34: Because ! 35: .I style ! 36: runs ! 37: .I deroff ! 38: before looking at the text, formatting ! 39: header files should be included as part of the input. ! 40: The default macro package ! 41: .B \-ms ! 42: may be overridden with the flag ! 43: .B \-mm. ! 44: The flag ! 45: .BR \-ml , ! 46: which causes ! 47: .B deroff ! 48: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of ! 49: non-sentences. ! 50: The other options are used to locate sentences with certain characteristics. ! 51: .TP ! 52: .B \-a ! 53: print all sentences with their length and readability index. ! 54: .TP ! 55: .B \-e ! 56: print all sentences that begin with an expletive. ! 57: .TP ! 58: .B \-p ! 59: print all sentences that contain a passive verb. ! 60: .TP ! 61: .BI \-l num ! 62: print all sentences longer than ! 63: .IR num . ! 64: .TP ! 65: .BI \-r num ! 66: print all sentences whose readability index is greater than ! 67: .IR num . ! 68: .TP ! 69: .B \-P ! 70: print parts of speech of the words in the document. ! 71: .SH "SEE ALSO" ! 72: deroff(1), diction(1) ! 73: .SH BUGS ! 74: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause ! 75: incorrect sentence breaks.
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