STYLE(1,C)                  AIX Commands Reference                   STYLE(1,C)



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style



PURPOSE

Analyzes the surface characteristics of a document.

SYNTAX


         +-----------------+
style ---| +-------------+ |--- file ---|
         +-| -ml  -l num |-+
           | -mm  -r num |
           | -a   -P     |
           | -e   -p     |
           +-------------+


Note:  This command does not have MBCS support.

DESCRIPTION

The style command 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.

Notes:

  1. This command does not have National Language Support.

  2. Use of nonstandard formatting macros can cause incorrect sentence breaks.

FLAGS

-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.




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

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "deroff" and "diction, explain."


















































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