NAME
soelim — eliminate .so's from nroff input
DESCRIPTION
soelim
reads the specified files or the standard input
and performs the textual inclusion implied by
nroff
directives of the form
when they appear at the beginning of input lines.
This is useful when using programs such as
tbl(1)
that do not normally do this,
allowing placement of individual tables or other text objects
in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.
An argument consisting of a single minus
(-)
is taken to be a file name corresponding to the standard input.
Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using
'
instead of
.
at the start of the line as in:
'so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.s
EXAMPLES
soelim
is often used in a context similar to the following:
soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -mm | col | lp
WARNINGS
The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness —
exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name.
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