STYLE(1)                             BSD                              STYLE(1)



NAME
     style - analyze surface characteristics of a document

SYNOPSIS
     style [-mm] [-ml] [-a] [-e] [-l num] [-r num] [-p] [-P] file

DESCRIPTION
     style analyzes the surface characteristics of a document's writing style.
     It reports on readability, sentence length and structure, word length and
     usage, verb type, and sentence openers.  Because style runs deroff(1)
     before looking at the text, you should include formatting header files as
     part of the input.

OPTIONS
     -mm     Override the default macro package ms(7).

     -ml     Cause deroff(1) to skip lists. This option should be used if the
             document contains many lists of non-sentences.

     -a      Print all sentences with their length (in words) 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 more than num words in length.

     -r num  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.