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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
2958d0fe | 3 | .\" |
f35cac8e | 4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
2958d0fe | 5 | .\" |
5325ced3 | 6 | .\" @(#)diction.1 4.5 (Berkeley) %G% |
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7 | .\" |
8 | .Dd | |
9 | .Dt DICTION 1 | |
10 | .Os BSD 4.4 | |
11 | .Sh NAME | |
12 | .Nm diction , explain | |
13 | .Nd print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction | |
14 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
15 | .Nm diction | |
16 | .Op Fl ml | |
17 | .Op Fl mm | |
18 | .Op Fl n | |
19 | .Op Fl f Ar pfile | |
20 | .Ar file \&... | |
21 | .Nm explain | |
22 | .Pp | |
23 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
24 | .Nm Diction | |
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25 | finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases |
26 | from a data base of bad or wordy diction. | |
f35cac8e | 27 | Each phrase is bracketed with |
5325ced3 | 28 | .Sq [\|] . |
2958d0fe | 29 | Because |
f35cac8e | 30 | .Nm diction |
2958d0fe | 31 | runs |
f35cac8e | 32 | .Xr deroff 1 |
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33 | before looking at the text, formatting |
34 | header files should be included as part of the input. | |
5325ced3 | 35 | .Tw Ds |
f35cac8e | 36 | .Tp Fl mm |
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37 | The default macro package, |
38 | .Fl ms , | |
2958d0fe | 39 | may be overridden with the flag |
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40 | .Fl mm . |
41 | .Tp Fl ml | |
42 | causes | |
43 | .Xr deroff 1 | |
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44 | to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of |
45 | non-sentences. | |
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46 | .Tc Fl f |
47 | .Ws | |
48 | .Ar pfile. | |
49 | .Cx | |
50 | Use | |
51 | .Ar pfile | |
52 | as a pattern file in addition to the default file. | |
53 | .Tp Fl n | |
54 | Suppress usage of default file. | |
55 | .Tp | |
56 | .Pp | |
57 | .Nm Explain | |
2958d0fe | 58 | is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. |
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59 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
60 | .Xr deroff 1 | |
61 | .Sh HISTORY | |
62 | .Nm Diction | |
63 | appeared in 4.0 BSD. | |
64 | .Sh BUGS | |
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65 | Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause |
66 | incorrect sentence breaks. | |
0d0273fb | 67 | In particular, |
f35cac8e | 68 | .Nm diction |
0d0273fb | 69 | doesn't grok |
f35cac8e | 70 | .Fl me . |