SOELIM(1)

NAME
soelim - resolve and eliminate .so requests from nroff or troff input

SYNOPSIS
soelim [ filename ... ]

AVAILABILITY
This command is available with the Text software installation option. Refer to for information on how to install optional software.

DESCRIPTION

soelim reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual inclusion implied by the nroff(1) directives of the form

    .so somefile

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 `-' is taken to be a file name corresponding to the standard input.

Note: inclusion can be suppressed by using `'' instead of `.', that is,

    ' so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.s

EXAMPLE

A sample usage of soelim would be

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

SEE ALSO
colcrt(1), more(1), nroff(1), tbl(1)