@(#)diction.1 4.2 (Berkeley) 82/11/06
DICTION 1
NAME
diction - print wordy sentences
explain - interactive 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 supressed.
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.