diction.1

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.\" SCCSID: @(#)diction.1	8.1	9/11/90
.TH diction 1 
.SH Name
diction, explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction
.SH Syntax
.B diction
[\fB\-ml\fR] [\fB\-mm\fR] [\fB\-n\fR] [\fB\-f\fI pfile\fR] \fIfile...\fR
.br
.B explain
.SH Description
.NXR "diction program"
.NXR "explain program"
The
.PN diction
command
finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases
from a data base of bad or wordy diction.
Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
Because
.PN diction
runs
.PN deroff
before looking at the text, formatting
header files should be included as part of the input.
.PP
The
.PN explain
command
is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
.SH Options
.IP \fB\-mm\fR 20
Overrides default macro package
\fB\-ms\fR.
.IP \fB\-ml\fR 
Causes 
.B deroff
to skip lists.  
.IP \fB\-f\fIpfile\fR 
Specifies pattern file in addition to default file.  Note that you can
specify the \fB\-n\fR flag to suppress the default file.
.SH Restrictions
.NXR "diction program" "restricted"
Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
incorrect sentence breaks.
.SH See Also
deroff(1)