term% cat index.txt WWB(1) General Commands Manual 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 subpro‐
grams are recommended.
Style reports on readability, sentence length and structure, word
length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers in the named docu‐
ments.
Diction prints all sentences that contain phrases from a list of bad or
verbose word patterns. Option -p pfile supplies 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-sen‐
tences.
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 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.
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