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.  Style runs deroff before examining at the text; therefore, 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 numerous lists of non-sentences.  The other options are used to locate sentences with certain characteristics as follows:

−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 with readability index which 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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