1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)style.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/06/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt STYLE 1 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm style 13.Nd analyze surface characteristics of a document 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm style 16.Op Fl ml 17.Op Fl mm 18.Op Fl a 19.Op Fl e 20.Op Fl l Ns Ar num 21.Op Fl r Ns Ar num 22.Op Fl p 23.Op Fl P 24.Ar file ... 25.Sh DESCRIPTION 26.Nm Style 27analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style 28of a document. 29It reports on readability, sentence length and 30structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers. 31Because 32.Nm style 33runs 34.Xr deroff 35before looking at the text, formatting 36header files should be included as part of the input. 37.Pp 38Options available: 39.Bl -tag -width 8n 40.It Fl a 41print all sentences with their length and readability index. 42.It Fl e 43print all sentences that begin with an expletive. 44.It Fl p 45print all sentences that contain a passive verb. 46.It Fl l Ar num 47print all sentences longer than 48.Ar num . 49.It Fl ml 50The flag 51.Fl ml , 52which causes 53.Xr deroff 54to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of 55non-sentences. 56.It Fl mm 57The default macro package 58.Fl ms 59may be overridden with the flag 60.Fl mm . 61.It Fl r Ar num 62print all sentences whose readability index is greater than 63.Ar num . 64.It Fl P 65print parts of speech of the words in the document. 66.Sh SEE ALSO 67.Xr deroff 1 , 68.Xr diction 1 69.Sh BUGS 70Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause 71incorrect sentence breaks. 72.Sh HISTORY 73The 74.Nm 75command appeared in 76.Bx 4 . 77