NAME

soelim − eliminate .so’s from nroff input

SYNOPSIS

soelim [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

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

.so some_file

when they appear at the beginning of input lines.  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 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 ‘.’, as in:

´so /usr/lib/tmac.s

A sample usage of soelim would be

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. 

SEE ALSO

more(1), nroff(1), tbl(1). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.05: June 1991