DICTION(1)              GENIX Programmer's Manual              DICTION(1)



      NAME
           diction,explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction

      SYNOPSIS
           diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ...
           explain

      DESCRIPTION
           Diction 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,  for-
           matting  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 user may  supply
           her/his  own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file
           with -f pfile. If the flag -n is also supplied the default file will
           be suppressed.

           Explain is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases  found  by  dic-
           tion.

      SEE ALSO
           deroff(1)

      BUGS
           Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause  incorrect  sentence
           breaks.  In particular, diction doesn't grok -me.



























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