SysIII/usr/src/man/man1/typo.1
.TH TYPO 1 Obsolescent
.SH NAME
typo \- find possible typographical errors
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B typo
[
.B \-n
] [ files ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Typo\^
hunts through a document for unusual
words, typographic errors, and
.I "hapax legomena\^"
and prints
them on the standard output.
.PP
The words used in the document are printed
out in decreasing order of peculiarity along
with an index of peculiarity.
An index of 10
or more is considered peculiar.
Printing of
certain very common English words is suppressed.
.PP
The statistics for judging words are taken from
the document itself, with some help from known
statistics of English.
The
.B \-n
option suppresses
the help from English and should be used if the
document is written in, for example, Urdu.
.PP
.IR Troff (1)
control lines are ignored.
Quote marks, vertical bars, hyphens, and ampersands within words are
equivalent to spaces.
Words hyphenated across lines are put back together.
.SH FILES
/tmp/ttmp??
.br
/usr/lib/salt
.br
/usr/lib/w2006
.SH SEE ALSO
spell(1).