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                      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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