STYLE(1)
NAME
style − analyze surface characteristics of a document
USAGE
style [ −ml ] [ −mm ] [ −a ] [ −e ] [ −l num ] [ −r num ] [ −p ] [ −P ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Style analyzes the surface characteristics of a document’s writing style. It reports on readability, sentence length and structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers. Because style runs deroff(1) before looking at the text, you should include formatting header files as part of the input.
OPTIONS
−mm Use the mm(7) macro package instead of the default ms(7) package.
−ml Force deroff(1) to skip lists. Use this if the document contains many lists of nonsentences.
−a Print all sentences with their length (in words) and an index of their readability.
−e Print all sentences that begin with an expletive.
−p Print all sentences that contain a passive verb.
−l num Print all sentences that contain more words than num.
−r num Print all sentences whose readability index is greater than num.
−P Print parts of speech used in the document.
CAUTIONS
Using nonstandard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks.