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, formatting header files should be included as part of the input. 

Explain is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. 

OPTIONS

−mlDeroff should skip lists. This option should be used if the document contains many lists of non-sentences. 

−mmUse the −mm macro package instead of the default −ms macro package. 

−nSuppress the default file. 

−f
Pfile contains a user-supplied pattern file to be used in addition to the default file. 

SEE ALSO

deroff(1)

BUGS

Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks.  In particular, diction doesn’t know about the −me macro package. 

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