style, diction: anyone use them

Richard L. Goerwitz goer at quads.uchicago.edu
Sun Aug 19 14:41:50 AEST 1990


Does anyone actually use style and diction.  Diction has a nice
little display, and allows easy fix-ups.  The dict.d file, though,
could be extended in a number of ways (does anyone have a good
dict.d file?).  Style, though, seems only to report opaque word-
lengths, and various statistics on parts of speech and sentence-
type.  In terms of basic, Strunk & White-type help with writing,
it seems to be of minimal use.  I wonder:  Has anyone actually
gotten some good mileage out of style?  If so, could he or she
perhaps offer some guidance?

-Richard



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