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STYLE(1)                                                              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.


7th Edition                     April 29, 1985                        STYLE(1)