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style(1) General Commands Manual style(1) NAME style - Analyzes surface characteristics of a document. SYNOPSIS style [-ml] [-mm] [-a] [-e] [-l num] [-r num] [-p] [-P] file ... FLAGS Displays all sentences with their length and readability index. Dis- plays all sentences that begin with an expletive. Displays all sen- tences longer than num. Skips lists in the document. Overrides the default -ms macro package. Displays parts of speech of the words in the document. Displays all sentences that contain a passive verb. Displays all sentences whose readability index is greater than num. DESCRIPTION The style command 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. Be- cause style runs deroff before looking at the text, formatting header files should be included as part of the input. The default macro pack- age -ms may be overridden with the -mm flag. The -ml flag, which causes deroff to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists that contain non-sentences. Use the other flags to locate sentences with certain characteristics. RESTRICTIONS Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence breaks. RELATED INFORMATION Commands: deroff(1), diction(1) delim off style(1)