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diction, explain



PURPOSE

Identifies and prints wordy sentences.

SYNTAX


           +--------------+
diction ---| +----------+ |--- file ---|
           +-| -ml      |-+
            ^| -mm      ||
            || -f pfile ||
            || -n       ||
            |+----------+|
            +------------+

explain ---|


Note:  This command does not have MBCS support.

DESCRIPTION

The diction command finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases from
a data base of bad or wordy diction.  Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
Because diction runs deroff before looking at the text, formatting header files
should be included as part of the input.

The explain command is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by
diction.

Notes:

  1. These commands do not have National Language Support.

  2. Use of non-standard formatting macros can cause incorrect sentence breaks.
    In particular, diction does not understand -me.

FLAGS

-ml     Causes deroff to skip lists; used if a document contains many lists of
        non-sentences.

-mm     Overrides the default -ms macro package.






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-f pfile
        Names a user pattern file to be used in addition to the default file.

-n      Used with -f, suppresses use of the default file; only the user pattern
        file is used.

RELATED INFORMATION

The following command: "deroff."














































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