NAME

diction, explain − print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction

SYNOPSIS

diction [ options ] file ... 
explain

DESCRIPTION

Diction finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases from a data base of bad or wordy diction.  Diction prints out these sentences and brackets each wordy phrase with [ ].  Because diction runs deroff before looking at the text, formatting header files should be included as part of the input. 

Explain is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction. 

OPTIONS

−f pfile
lets you supply your own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file. −n When used with −f pfile , suppresses the default file and searches for phrases found only in your own pattern file. 

−ml Causes deroff to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of non-sentences. 

−mm Overrides the default macro package −ms. 

SEE ALSO

deroff(1)

BUGS

Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks.  In particular, diction is confused by −me. 

INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 4.3 BSD  —  May 10, 1986