NAME

style −  analyze writing style of a document

SYNOPSIS

style [ options ] file ... 

DESCRIPTION

Style analyzes the surface characteristics of the writing style of a document.  It reports on readability, sentence length and structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers.  Because style runs deroff before looking at the text, formatting header files should be included as part of the input. 

OPTIONS

−a Prints all sentences with their length and readability index. 

−e Prints all sentences that begin with an expletive. 

−lnum
Prints all sentences longer than num.

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

−mm Overrides −ms as the default macro package. 

−p Prints all sentences that contain a passive verb. 

−P Prints parts of speech of the words in the document. 

−rnum
Prints all sentences whose readability index is greater than num.

SEE ALSO

deroff(1), diction(1)

BUGS

Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks. 

INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 4.3 BSD  —  April 29, 1985