WWB(1) WWB(1)
NAME
wwb, style, diction, punct - writers 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 `wwb wwb', but for quick use the
following subprograms are recommended.
Style reports on readability, sentence length and structure,
word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers in
the named documents.
Diction prints all sentences that contain phrases from a
list of bad or verbose word patterns. Option -p pfile sup-
plies an additional private pattern file; option -n skips
the standard one.
Suggest reads, from the standard input, phrases deprecated
by diction and proposes alternatives.
Punct reports sentences that appear to violate standard
punctuation rules and sentences that contain doubled words.
Style and diction expect documents prepared for
nroff/troff(1) and the preprocessors pic, ideal, grap, eqn,
refer, and tbl(1). Option -mm overrides the default macro
package, -ms. The related option -ml skips mm-style lists,
and should be used if there are many lists of non-sentences.
Other options for 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.
-lnum
WWB(1) WWB(1)
print all sentences longer than num.
-rnum
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), spell(1)
Writer's Workbench User's Manual, /usr/man/manw/*
BUGS
Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect
sentence breaks.
Imperatives cannot be recognized.