WWB(1) 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 `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. Options peculiar to style are
-a Print all sentences with their length and readabil-
ity 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.
WWB(1) WWB(1)
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 over-
ride:
-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 subcom-
mands; to print them, execute `man proofr'.
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 sen-
tence breaks.
Imperative sentences cannot be recognized.