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STYLE(1)                     BSD Reference Manual                     STYLE(1)

N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE
     s\bst\bty\byl\ble\be - 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_\bn_\bu_\bm] [-\b-r\br_\bn_\bu_\bm] [-\b-p\bp] [-\b-P\bP] _\bf_\bi_\bl_\be _\b._\b._\b.

D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
     S\bSt\bty\byl\ble\be analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style of a doc-
     ument.  It reports on readability, sentence length and structure, word
     length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers.  Because s\bst\bty\byl\ble\be runs
     deroff before looking at the text, formatting header files should be in-
     cluded as part of the input.

     Options available:

     -\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-m\bml\bl       The flag -\b-m\bml\bl, which causes deroff to skip lists, should be used
               if the document contains many lists of non-sentences.

     -\b-m\bmm\bm       The default macro package -\b-m\bms\bs may be overridden with the flag
               -\b-m\bmm\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.

H\bHI\bIS\bST\bTO\bOR\bRY\bY
     The s\bst\bty\byl\ble\be command appeared in 4BSD.

4th Berkeley Distribution        June 6, 1993                                1