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1.1       root        1: .TH WWB 1
                      2: .CT 1 writing_aids
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: wwb, style, diction, punct \- writer's workbench
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B wwb style
                      7: [
                      8: .I option ...
                      9: ]
                     10: .I file ...
                     11: .PP
                     12: .B wwb diction
                     13: [
                     14: .I option ...
                     15: ]
                     16: .I file ...
                     17: .PP
                     18: .B wwb suggest
                     19: .PP
                     20: .B wwb punct
                     21: .I file ...
                     22: .PP
                     23: .B wwb wwb
                     24: [
                     25: .B -ms
                     26: ]
                     27: [
                     28: .B -mm
                     29: ]
                     30: .I file ...
                     31: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     32: .I Wwb
                     33: controls many subprograms documented in
                     34: the references.
                     35: For the full treatment use
                     36: .LR "wwb wwb" ,
                     37: but for quick use the following
                     38: subprograms are recommended.
                     39: .PP
                     40: .I Style
                     41: reports on readability, sentence length and
                     42: structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers
                     43: in the named documents.
                     44: Options peculiar to
                     45: .I style
                     46: are
                     47: .nr xx \w'\f5-p \fIpfile '
                     48: .TP \n(xxu
                     49: .B -a
                     50: Print all sentences with their length and readability index.
                     51: .TP
                     52: .B -e
                     53: Print all sentences that begin with an expletive.
                     54: .TP
                     55: .B -p
                     56: Print all sentences that contain a passive verb.
                     57: .TP
                     58: .BI -l " num
                     59: Print all sentences longer than
                     60: .IR num .
                     61: .TP
                     62: .BI -r " num
                     63: Print all sentences whose readability index is greater than
                     64: .IR num .
                     65: .TP
                     66: .B -P
                     67: Print parts of speech of the words in the document.
                     68: .PP
                     69: .I Diction
                     70: prints all sentences that contain phrases
                     71: from a list of bad or verbose word patterns.
                     72: Options peculiar to
                     73: .I diction
                     74: are
                     75: .TP \n(xxu
                     76: .BI -p " pfile
                     77: Use an additional private pattern file.
                     78: .TP
                     79: .B -n
                     80: Skip the standard pattern file.
                     81: .PP
                     82: .I Suggest
                     83: reads, from the standard input, phrases deprecated by
                     84: .I diction
                     85: and proposes alternatives.
                     86: .PP
                     87: .I Punct
                     88: reports sentences that appear to violate standard punctuation
                     89: rules or that contain doubled words.
                     90: .PP
                     91: .I Style,
                     92: .I diction,
                     93: and
                     94: .I wwb
                     95: expect documents prepared for
                     96: .IR troff (1)
                     97: with the
                     98: .IR ms (6)
                     99: macro package and the preprocessors
                    100: .I "pic, ideal, grap, eqn, refer,"
                    101: and
                    102: .IR tbl (1).
                    103: Two options override:
                    104: .TP \n(xxu
                    105: .B -mm
                    106: The document uses the
                    107: .B -mm
                    108: macro package.
                    109: .TP
                    110: .B -ml
                    111: The document uses the
                    112: .B -mm
                    113: macro package.
                    114: All
                    115: .IR mm -style
                    116: lists should be skipped (to avoid attempting to
                    117: parse nonsentences).
                    118: .SH FILES
                    119: .F /usr/bin/WWB/*
                    120: .br
                    121: .F /usr/lib/style/*
                    122: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                    123: Directories
                    124: .F /n/bowell/usr/src/man/manw
                    125: and
                    126: .F /usr/spool/man/manw
                    127: contain manual pages for further 
                    128: .I wwb
                    129: subcommands; to print them, execute
                    130: .LR "man proofr" .
                    131: .br
                    132: .I
                    133: Unix System V Writer's Workbench Software Release 2.0
                    134: .I Documentation Set,
                    135: AT&T Select Code 302-949
                    136: .br
                    137: .IR deroff (1), 
                    138: .IR spell (1)
                    139: .SH BUGS
                    140: Use of non-standard formatting macros causes
                    141: incorrect sentence breaks.
                    142: .br
                    143: Imperative sentences cannot be recognized.

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