DICTION(1-BSD)      RISC/os Reference Manual       DICTION(1-BSD)



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

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.  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
     diction.

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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