STYLE(1)                 UNIX System V(April 29, 1985)                 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 contains many lists of non-
      sentences.  The other 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.

      -lnum print all sentences longer than num.

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

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

SEE ALSO
      deroff(1), diction(1)

BUGS
      Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence
      breaks.


















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