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    STYLE(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		 STYLE(1)

    NAME
         style  -  analyze surface characteristics of a document

    SYNOPSIS
         style [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -a ] [ -e ] [ -l num ] [ -r num ] [
         -p ] [ -P ] 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.  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 con-
         tains many lists of non-sentences.  The other options are
         used to locate sentences with certain characteristics.

         -a   print all sentences with their length and readability
    	  index.

         -e   print all sentences that begin with an expletive.

         -p   print all sentences that contain a passive verb.

         -lnum
    	  print all sentences longer than num.

         -rnum
    	  print all sentences whose readability index is greater
    	  than num.

         -P   print parts of speech of the words in the document.

    SEE ALSO
         deroff(1), diction(1)

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

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