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STYLE(1)            UNIX Programmer's Manual             STYLE(1)



N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE
    style  -  analyze surface characteristics of a document

S\bSY\bYN\bNO\bOP\bPS\bSI\bIS\bS
    s\bst\bty\byl\ble\be [ -\b-m\bml\bl ] [ -\b-m\bmm\bm ] [ -\b-a\ba ] [ -\b-e\be ] [ -\b-l\bl num ] [ -\b-r\br num ] [
    -\b-p\bp ] [ -\b-P\bP ] file ...

D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
    _\bS_\bt_\by_\bl_\be analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing
    style of a document.  It reports on readability, sentence
    length and structure, word length and usage, verb type, and
    sentence openers.  Because _\bs_\bt_\by_\bl_\be runs _\bd_\be_\br_\bo_\bf_\bf before looking
    at the text, formatting header files should be included as
    part of the input.  The default macro package -\b-m\bms\bs may be
    overridden with the flag -\b-m\bmm\bm.\b. The flag -\b-m\bml\bl, which causes
    d\bde\ber\bro\bof\bff\bf to skip lists, should be used if the document con-
    tains many lists of non-sentences.  The other options are
    used to locate sentences with certain characteristics.

    -\b-a\ba   print all sentences with their length and readability
         index.

    -\b-e\be   print all sentences that begin with an expletive.

    -\b-p\bp   print all sentences that contain a passive verb.

    -\b-l\bl_\bn_\bu_\bm
         print all sentences longer than _\bn_\bu_\bm.

    -\b-r\br_\bn_\bu_\bm
         print all sentences whose readability index is greater
         than _\bn_\bu_\bm.

    -\b-P\bP   print parts of speech of the words in the document.

S\bSE\bEE\bE A\bAL\bLS\bSO\bO
    deroff(1), diction(1)

B\bBU\bUG\bGS\bS
    Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect
    sentence breaks.














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