Diction

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diction

https://www.gnu.org/software/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.

This is a GNU package:diction

Download

https://www.moria.de/~michael/comp/diction/diction-1.14.tar.gz

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:C
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Text-creation:word-processing
• Use:text-creation
• Works-with:text

Licensing

License

Verified by

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Notes

License

GPLv3orlater

Verified by

Deborah Nicholson

Verified on

7 January 2008

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Michael Haardt	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diction/
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/diction
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/
	Download	https://www.moria.de/~michael/comp/diction/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	detex
Weak prerequisite	dehtml
Weak prerequisite	deroff

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