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STYLE(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		 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 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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