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diction - Checks text for readability and bad usage

This program includes both 'diction' and 'style'. 'Diction' identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases; 'style' analyzes surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures.

While these programs cannot help you structure a document well, they can help to avoid poor wording and compare the readability of your document with others. Both commands support English and German documents.



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Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diction/diction-1.02.tar.gz
Version 1.02 (stable) released on 2002-03-04
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

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Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programsstyle
Source languagesANSI C
Weak prerequisitesderoff, dehtml, detex
Related programsispell

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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