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



NAME
     style  -  analyze surface characteristics of a document

SYNOPSIS
     style [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -a ] [ -e ] [ -lnum ] [ -rnum ] [ -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(1) before look-
     ing 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 con-
     tains 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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