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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. |