1.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)diction.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt DICTION 1 10.Os 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm diction , explain 13.Nd print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm diction 16.Op Fl f Ar pfile 17.Op Fl ml 18.Op Fl mm 19.Op Fl n 20.Ar file ... 21.Nm explain 22.Sh DESCRIPTION 23.Nm Diction 24finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases 25from a data base of bad or wordy diction. 26Each phrase is bracketed with 27.Sq [\|] . 28Because 29.Nm diction 30runs 31.Xr deroff 1 32before looking at the text, formatting 33header files should be included as part of the input. 34.Bl -tag -width "xF pfile" 35.It Fl f Ar pfile. 36Use 37.Ar pfile 38as a pattern file in addition to the default file. 39.It Fl ml 40causes 41.Xr deroff 1 42to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of 43non-sentences. 44.It Fl mm 45The default macro package, 46.Fl ms , 47may be overridden with the flag 48.Fl mm . 49.It Fl n 50Suppress usage of default file. 51.El 52.Pp 53.Nm Explain 54is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. 55.Sh SEE ALSO 56.Xr deroff 1 57.Sh BUGS 58Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause 59incorrect sentence breaks. 60In particular, 61.Nm diction 62doesn't grok 63.Fl me . 64.Sh HISTORY 65The 66.Nm diction 67command appeared in 68.Bx 4 . 69