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WWB(1) General Commands Manual WWB(1) NAME wwb, style, diction, punct - writer's workbench SYNOPSIS wwb style [ option ... ] file ... wwb diction [ option ... ] file ... wwb suggest wwb punct file ... wwb wwb [ -ms ] [ -mm ] file ... DESCRIPTION Wwb controls many subprograms documented in the references. For the full treatment use but for quick use the following subprograms are rec- ommended. Style reports on readability, sentence length and structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers in the named docu- ments. Options peculiar to style are -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. -l num Print all sentences longer than num. -r num Print all sentences whose readability index is greater than num. -P Print parts of speech of the words in the document. Diction prints all sentences that contain phrases from a list of bad or verbose word patterns. Options peculiar to diction are -p pfile Use an additional private pattern file. -n Skip the standard pattern file. Suggest reads, from the standard input, phrases deprecated by diction and proposes alternatives. Punct reports sentences that appear to violate standard punctuation rules or that contain doubled words. Style, diction, and wwb expect documents prepared for troff(1) with the ms(6) macro package and the preprocessors pic, ideal, grap, eqn, refer, and tbl(1). Two options override: -mm The document uses the -mm macro package. -ml The document uses the -mm macro package. All mm-style lists should be skipped (to avoid attempting to parse nonsentences). FILES SEE ALSO Directories and contain manual pages for further wwb subcommands; to print them, execute Unix System V Writer's Workbench Software Release 2.0 Documentation Set, AT&T Select Code 302-949 deroff(1), spell(1) BUGS Use of non-standard formatting macros causes incorrect sentence breaks. Imperative sentences cannot be recognized. WWB(1)