STYLE(1)                GENIX Programmer's Manual                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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