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1 | .TH DICTION 1 "18 January 1983" |
| 2 | .SH NAME | |
| 3 | diction,explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction | |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .B diction | |
| 6 | [ | |
| 7 | .B \-ml | |
| 8 | ] [ | |
| 9 | .B \-mm | |
| 10 | ] [ | |
| 11 | .B \-n | |
| 12 | ] [ | |
| 13 | .B \-f | |
| 14 | pfile ] | |
| 15 | file ... | |
| 16 | .br | |
| 17 | .B explain | |
| 18 | .LP | |
| 19 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 20 | .I Diction | |
| 21 | finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases | |
| 22 | from a data base of bad or wordy diction. | |
| 23 | Each phrase is bracketed with [ ]. | |
| 24 | Because | |
| 25 | .I diction | |
| 26 | runs | |
| 27 | .I deroff | |
| 28 | before looking at the text, formatting | |
| 29 | header files should be included as part of the input. | |
| 30 | The default macro package | |
| 31 | .B \-ms | |
| 32 | may be overridden with the flag | |
| 33 | .B \-mm. | |
| 34 | The flag | |
| 35 | .B \-ml | |
| 36 | which causes | |
| 37 | .B deroff | |
| 38 | to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of | |
| 39 | non-sentences. | |
| 40 | The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file | |
| 41 | with | |
| 42 | .B \-f | |
| 43 | .I pfile. | |
| 44 | If the flag | |
| 45 | .B \-n | |
| 46 | is also supplied the default file will be suppressed. | |
| 47 | .PP | |
| 48 | .I Explain | |
| 49 | is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. | |
| 50 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 51 | deroff(1) | |
| 52 | .SH BUGS | |
| 53 | Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause | |
| 54 | incorrect sentence breaks. | |
| 55 | In particular, | |
| 56 | .I diction | |
| 57 | doesn't grok | |
| 58 | .B \-me. |