NAME

soelim − eliminate nroff source directives from nroff input

SYNTAX

soelim [file...]

DESCRIPTION

The soelim command reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual inclusion implied by the nroff directives of the form

.so somefile

when they appear at the beginning of input lines. This is useful since programs such as tbl do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.

Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using ‘´’ instead of ‘.’, that is

´so /usr/lib/tmac.s

A sample usage of soelim would be

soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff −ms | col | lpr

OPTIONS

−File name corresponding to standard input. 

RESTRICTIONS

The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness − exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name. 

SEE ALSO

colcrt(1), more(1)

Commands