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+.TH WWB 1
+.CT 1 writing_aids
+.SH NAME
+wwb, style, diction, punct \- writer's workbench
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B wwb style
+[
+.I option ...
+]
+.I file ...
+.PP
+.B wwb diction
+[
+.I option ...
+]
+.I file ...
+.PP
+.B wwb suggest
+.PP
+.B wwb punct
+.I file ...
+.PP
+.B wwb wwb
+[
+.B -ms
+]
+[
+.B -mm
+]
+.I file ...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Wwb
+controls many subprograms documented in
+the references.
+For the full treatment use
+.LR "wwb wwb" ,
+but for quick use the following
+subprograms are recommended.
+.PP
+.I Style
+reports on readability, sentence length and
+structure, word length and usage, verb type, and sentence openers
+in the named documents.
+Options peculiar to
+.I style
+are
+.nr xx \w'\f5-p \fIpfile '
+.TP \n(xxu
+.B -a
+Print all sentences with their length and readability index.
+.TP
+.B -e
+Print all sentences that begin with an expletive.
+.TP
+.B -p
+Print all sentences that contain a passive verb.
+.TP
+.BI -l " num
+Print all sentences longer than
+.IR num .
+.TP
+.BI -r " num
+Print all sentences whose readability index is greater than
+.IR num .
+.TP
+.B -P
+Print parts of speech of the words in the document.
+.PP
+.I Diction
+prints all sentences that contain phrases
+from a list of bad or verbose word patterns.
+Options peculiar to
+.I diction
+are
+.TP \n(xxu
+.BI -p " pfile
+Use an additional private pattern file.
+.TP
+.B -n
+Skip the standard pattern file.
+.PP
+.I Suggest
+reads, from the standard input, phrases deprecated by
+.I diction
+and proposes alternatives.
+.PP
+.I Punct
+reports sentences that appear to violate standard punctuation
+rules or that contain doubled words.
+.PP
+.I Style,
+.I diction,
+and
+.I wwb
+expect documents prepared for
+.IR troff (1)
+with the
+.IR ms (6)
+macro package and the preprocessors
+.I "pic, ideal, grap, eqn, refer,"
+and
+.IR tbl (1).
+Two options override:
+.TP \n(xxu
+.B -mm
+The document uses the
+.B -mm
+macro package.
+.TP
+.B -ml
+The document uses the
+.B -mm
+macro package.
+All
+.IR mm -style
+lists should be skipped (to avoid attempting to
+parse nonsentences).
+.SH FILES
+.F /usr/bin/WWB/*
+.br
+.F /usr/lib/style/*
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+Directories
+.F /n/bowell/usr/src/man/manw
+and
+.F /usr/spool/man/manw
+contain manual pages for further
+.I wwb
+subcommands; to print them, execute
+.LR "man proofr" .
+.br
+.I
+Unix System V Writer's Workbench Software Release 2.0
+.I Documentation Set,
+AT&T Select Code 302-949
+.br
+.IR deroff (1),
+.IR spell (1)
+.SH BUGS
+Use of non-standard formatting macros causes
+incorrect sentence breaks.
+.br
+Imperative sentences cannot be recognized.