STYLE(CT)                XENIX System V                 STYLE(CT)



     Name
          style  -  Analyzes characteristics of a document.

     Syntax
          style [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -a ] [ -e ] [ -l num ] [ -r num ]
               [ -p ] [ -P ] file ...

     Description
          style analyzes the 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(CT) 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 nonsentences.  The other options are
          used to locate sentences with certain characteristics.

          -a     Prints all sentences with their length and
                 readability index.

          -e     Prints all sentences that begin with an expletive.

          -p     Prints all sentences that contain a passive verb.

          -l num Prints all sentences longer than num.

          -r num Prints all sentences whose readability index is
                 greater than num.

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

     Credit
          This utility was developed at the University of California
          at
          Berkeley and is used with permission.

     See Also
          deroff(CT), diction(CT)

     Notes
          Use of nonstandard formatting macros may cause incorrect
          sentence breaks.

          style may not work when analyzing lines that are too long.
          You see this error message:

       sentence xx too many words

     The characters xx , above, designate the sentence number that is
     too long in an actual error message.



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          If this error occurs, the readability grades may be negative
          (less than zero).





















































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