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Ian West (ifw@frc.UUCP) writes:
> I would like to obtain text analysing tools similar to UNIX STYLE and
> DICTION but operating under MSDOS in ibm-pc. Any assistance appreciated.
> If necessary prepared to spend some dollars

I have some public-domain code written by Gary Perlman that
graphically displays your text.  The graphical display works on any
ASCII terminal (it's a series of underscores and punctuation; see the
man page below).  It highlights the complicated passages of your
document so you can rewrite them.  The tools don't compute Flesch
Indexes or anything, but then again the numbers that `style' spits
out are often meaningless to mere mortals anyway.

I can send you the sources---they are free---or post them to
comp.sources.misc or somewhere.  Spend your money on a good C compiler
for your PC.  These sources are written for Unix, but if your run-time
library is pretty good it may not be much effort to port them.

bob desinger
uunet!hpda!hpsemc!bd		bd%hpsemc@hplabs.HP.COM

P.S. Gary, are you on the net these days?

P.P.S.	Here are the man pages for `punc' and `headings'.  A third
	program, `abstract,' ties together the output of these two
	programs but it doesn't have a man page.


     PUNC(1)                                                   PUNC(1)

     NAME
          punc - graphically display sentences using their punctuation

     SYNOPSIS
          punc [-lmpsw] [-c criterion] [-] [files]

     DESCRIPTION
          punc prints graphical representations  of  sentences.   This
          graphical   representation   has  the  properties  that  the
          representation is long when the sentence is  long,  and  the
          representation  looks  complex when the sentence is complex.
          The program works by displaying text, one sentence per line,
          with   embedded   punctuation   retained,   and  underscores
          substituted  for  words.   For  example,  the  previous  two
          sentences of this man entry look like:
               ________________,__________.
               ______,____,____,_____.

     OPTIONS
          -c length
               Print only those sentences with "punc" lengths  greater
               than the criterion.

          -l   Print the line numbers of the text where the  sentences
               begin.

          -m   Map  words  to   different   classes   represented   by
               characters.   Upper  case  word  are  shown  as  the  ^
               character.
               &    conjunctions (and, but, ...)
               |    disjunctions (or)
               #    numbers (first, one, ...)
               ~    negations (not, never, ...)
               "    pronouns (he, she, ...)
               w    who, what, where, when, why, ...
               t    a, the, that, those, ...
               This set of words is incomplete.

          -p   Print the sentences after the graphical representation.

          -s   Print  the  sentence  numbers  before   the   graphical
               representation.

          -w   Print the length of words instead  of  underscores  for
               words.   Words longer than 10 characters are printed as
               *, and ten character words are printed as 0.

     SEE ALSO
          headings(1) for a high-level representation of a paper.

     AUTHORS
          Tom Erickson and Gary Perlman

     BUGS
          The way the program identifies the end of a sentence is  too
          simple  and  it  can be fooled badly.  Sentences must end at
          the end of lines.

          Nroff macros are not handled intelligently by  the  program;
          deroff  does a better but not perfect job and should be used
          as a preprocessor.




     HEADINGS(1)                                           HEADINGS(1)

     NAME
          headings - show headings from nroff source file

     SYNOPSIS
          headings
          Usage: headings [-cflns] [-h header] [-p para] [-P mark]
               [-m min] [-M max] [-] [file]

     DESCRIPTION
          Headings is used to create tables of contents  and  outlines
          of  papers  based on the  nroff headings macros in the text.
          Subheadings are indented below their superheadings  to  show
          the structure of the paper.

     OPTIONS
          -n   Number sections according to their order and depth.

          -l   Line numbers from the input are printed along with  the
               headings.

          -c   Characters read from the input are printed  along  with
               the headings.

          -m N The minimum section level is taken to be  N.   Sections
               of  level  less  than N will be shown, but not indented
               nor numbered.

          -M N The maximum section level is taken to be  N.   Sections
               of level greater than N will not appear in the output.

          -h XX
               The "next" heading macro is taken to be XX, where XX is
               a one or two letter macro name.  It is assumed that the
               level of each successive heading macro is  one  greater
               than  the  previous (see the macros example below).  If
               no macros are specified, the -me standard of  ".sh"  is
               assumed.   If  only  one macro is supplied, a numerical
               argument indicating the section  level  is  assumed  to
               follow the call to the macro.  This is used as an index
               of how much to indent the headings.  This  option  must
               be  the  last  in  a  sequence started with a flag.  If
               different section macros are used for different levels,
               a new flag argument must be added.

     EXAMPLES
          The -mcsl macros at the UCSD Cognitive Science Lab are based
          on  the  APA  standard  headings:  hh  (high), mh (main), lh
          (left), and ph (paragraph).  The call to headings for  these
          macros would look like:

                  headings -h hh  -h mh  -h lh  -h ph  file...

          To get a standard memorandum macro (-mm) table  of  contents
          (this  includes  numbering  and  headings  for level 1 and 2
          only), use:
                         headings -n -M 2 -h H file...

     SEE ALSO
          wwb(1), org(1)

     AUTHOR
          Gary Perlman