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2 | .\" @(#)diction.1 4.1 (Berkeley) 82/11/06 | |
3 | .\" | |
4 | .TH DICTION 1 | |
5 | .SH NAME | |
6 | diction \- print wordy sentences | |
7 | .br | |
8 | explain \- interactive thesaurus for diction | |
9 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
10 | .B diction | |
11 | [ | |
12 | .B \-ml | |
13 | ] [ | |
14 | .B \-mm | |
15 | ] [ | |
16 | .B \-n | |
17 | ] [ | |
18 | .B \-f | |
19 | pfile ] | |
20 | file ... | |
21 | .br | |
22 | .B explain | |
23 | .LP | |
24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
25 | .I Diction | |
26 | finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases | |
27 | from a data base of bad or wordy diction. | |
28 | Each phrase is bracketed with [ ]. | |
29 | Because | |
30 | .I diction | |
31 | runs | |
32 | .I deroff | |
33 | before looking at the text, formatting | |
34 | header files should be included as part of the input. | |
35 | The default macro package | |
36 | .B \-ms | |
37 | may be overridden with the flag | |
38 | .B \-mm. | |
39 | The flag | |
40 | .B \-ml | |
41 | which causes | |
42 | .B deroff | |
43 | to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of | |
44 | non-sentences. | |
45 | The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file | |
46 | with | |
47 | .B \-f | |
48 | .I pfile. | |
49 | If the flag | |
50 | .B \-n | |
51 | is also supplied the default file will be supressed. | |
52 | .PP | |
53 | .I Explain | |
54 | is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. | |
55 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
56 | deroff(1) | |
57 | .SH BUGS | |
58 | Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause | |
59 | incorrect sentence breaks. |