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 4.5 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 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.Sq [\|] . 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 Ds 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