


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



NAME
     diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for dic-
     tion

SYNOPSIS
     diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ...
     explain

DESCRIPTION
     _D_i_c_t_i_o_n finds all sentences in a document that contain
     phrases from a data base of bad or wordy diction.	Each
     phrase is bracketed with [ ].  Because _d_i_c_t_i_o_n runs _d_e_r_o_f_f
     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 _p_f_i_l_e. If the flag -n is also supplied
     the default file will be suppressed.

     _E_x_p_l_a_i_n 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.  In particular, _d_i_c_t_i_o_n doesn't grok -me.

























Printed 11/26/99	  May 10, 1986				1



