SOELIM(1)
NAME
soelim − eliminate .so’s from nroff input
USAGE
soelim [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Soelim reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual inclusion implied by the nroff (1) directives of the following form, when they appear at the beginning of input lines:
.so somefile
This is useful since programs such as tbl (1) do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables in separate files to be run as part of a large document.
An argument consisting of a single dash (−) is taken to be a filename corresponding to the standard input.
Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using a backquote instead of a period, as in the following:
´so /usr/lib/tmac.s
CAUTIONS
The format of the source commands must be completely standard. Exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the filename.
EXAMPLE
A sample usage of soelim is:
soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff