1.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)diction.1 4.4 (Berkeley) 06/24/90 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 25finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases 26from a data base of bad or wordy diction. 27Each phrase is bracketed with 28.Op . 29Because 30.Nm diction 31runs 32.Xr deroff 1 33before looking at the text, formatting 34header files should be included as part of the input. 35.Tw Fl 36.Tp Fl mm 37The default macro package 38.Fl ms 39may be overridden with the flag 40.Fl mm . 41.Tp Fl ml 42causes 43.Xr deroff 1 44to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of 45non-sentences. 46.Tc Fl f 47.Ws 48.Ar pfile. 49.Cx 50Use 51.Ar pfile 52as a pattern file in addition to the default file. 53.Tp Fl n 54Suppress usage of default file. 55.Tp 56.Pp 57.Nm Explain 58is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Xr deroff 1 61.Sh HISTORY 62.Nm Diction 63appeared in 4.0 BSD. 64.Sh BUGS 65Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause 66incorrect sentence breaks. 67In particular, 68.Nm diction 69doesn't grok 70.Fl me . 71