style(1)                                                 style(1)



     NAME
          style - analyze surface characteristics of a document

     SYNOPSIS
          style [-ml] [-mm] [-a] [-e] [-l num] [-r num] [-p] [-P]
          file...

     DESCRIPTION
          style analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing
          style of a document.  It reports on readability, sentence
          length and structure, word length and usage, verb type, and
          sentence openers.  Because style runs deroff before looking
          at the text, formatting header files should be included as
          part of the input.  The default macro package -ms may be
          overridden with the flag -mm.  The flag -ml, which causes
          deroff to skip lists, should be used if the document con-
          tains many lists of nonsentences.  The other flag options
          are used to locate sentences with certain characteristics.

          -a   print all sentences with their length and readability
               index.

          -e   print all sentences that begin with an expletive.

          -p   print all sentences that contain a passive verb.

          -l num
               print all sentences longer than num.

          -r num
               print all sentences whose readability index is greater
               than num.

          -P   print parts of speech of the words in the document.

     FILES
          /usr/ucb/style
          /usr/lib/style1
          /usr/lib/style2
          /usr/lib/style3

     SEE ALSO
          deroff(1), diction(1), spell(1).

     BUGS
          Use of nonstandard formatting macros may cause incorrect
          sentence breaks.








     April, 1990                                                     1