Manual page for DICTION(1)
diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction
SYNOPSIS
diction
[
-ml
] [
-mm
] [
-n
] [
-f
pfile ]
file ...
explain
DESCRIPTION
Diction
finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases
from a data base of bad or wordy diction.
Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
Because
diction
runs
deroff
before looking at the text, formatting
header files should be included as part of the input.
The default macro package
-ms
may be overridden with the flag
-mm.
The flag
-ml
which causes
deroff
to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
non-sentences.
The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file
with
-f
pfile.
If the flag
-n
is also supplied the default file will be suppressed.
Explain
is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
SEE ALSO
deroff(1)
BUGS
Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
incorrect sentence breaks.
In particular,
diction
doesn't grok
-me.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
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Last modified 11/5/97
