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1.th SOELIM VI 8/24/77
2.sh NAME
3soelim \- eliminate source directives from a \fInroff\fR or \fItroff\fR stream
4.sh SYNOPSIS
5.bd soelim
6[
7file ...
8]
9.sh DESCRIPTION
10.it Soelim
11reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual
12inclusion implied by the
13.it nroff
14directives of the form
15.s3
16.dt
17 .so somefile
18.s3
19when they appear at the beginning of input lines.
20This is useful since programs such as
21.it tbl
22do not normally do this;
23it allows the placement of individual tables
24in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.
25.s3
26Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using
27`\'' instead of `\.', i.e.
28.s3
29.dt
30 \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s
31.s3
32A sample usage of
33.it soelim
34would be
35.s3
36 soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -ms | collpr
37.sh SEE\ ALSO
38colcrt (VI), collpr (VI), cr3 (VI)
39.sh AUTHOR
40William Joy
41.sh BUGS
42The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \-
43exactly one
44blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name.