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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1988 Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
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0d0273fb | 5 | .\" @(#)diction.1 4.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
2958d0fe | 6 | .\" |
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7 | .TH DICTION 1 "" |
8 | .AT 3 | |
2958d0fe | 9 | .SH NAME |
0d0273fb | 10 | diction, explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction |
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11 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
12 | .B diction | |
13 | [ | |
14 | .B \-ml | |
15 | ] [ | |
16 | .B \-mm | |
17 | ] [ | |
18 | .B \-n | |
19 | ] [ | |
20 | .B \-f | |
21 | pfile ] | |
22 | file ... | |
23 | .br | |
24 | .B explain | |
25 | .LP | |
26 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
27 | .I Diction | |
28 | finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases | |
29 | from a data base of bad or wordy diction. | |
30 | Each phrase is bracketed with [ ]. | |
31 | Because | |
32 | .I diction | |
33 | runs | |
34 | .I deroff | |
35 | before looking at the text, formatting | |
36 | header files should be included as part of the input. | |
37 | The default macro package | |
38 | .B \-ms | |
39 | may be overridden with the flag | |
40 | .B \-mm. | |
41 | The flag | |
42 | .B \-ml | |
43 | which causes | |
44 | .B deroff | |
45 | to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of | |
46 | non-sentences. | |
47 | The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file | |
48 | with | |
49 | .B \-f | |
50 | .I pfile. | |
51 | If the flag | |
52 | .B \-n | |
0d0273fb | 53 | is also supplied the default file will be suppressed. |
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54 | .PP |
55 | .I Explain | |
56 | is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. | |
57 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
58 | deroff(1) | |
59 | .SH BUGS | |
60 | Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause | |
61 | incorrect sentence breaks. | |
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62 | In particular, |
63 | .I diction | |
64 | doesn't grok | |
65 | .B \-me. |