1.\" $NetBSD: soelim.1,v 1.8 2003/08/07 11:15:52 agc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)soelim.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 31.\" 32.Dd June 6, 1993 33.Dt SOELIM 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm soelim 37.Nd eliminate \&.so's from nroff input 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl I Ar directory 41.Op Ar file ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm 44reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual 45inclusion implied by the 46.Xr nroff 1 47directives of the form: 48.Pp 49.Dl \&.so somefile 50.Pp 51The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines. 52This is useful since programs such as 53.Xr tbl 1 54do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables 55in separate files to be run as a part of a large document. 56.Pp 57An argument consisting of a single minus 58.Ql Fl 59is taken to be 60a file name corresponding to the standard input. 61.Pp 62Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using 63.Ql \e' 64instead of 65.Ql \e. , 66i.e. 67.Pp 68.Dl \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s 69.Pp 70A sample usage of 71.Nm 72would be 73.Pp 74.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 75soelim exum?.n \&| tbl \&| nroff \-ms \&| col \&| lpr 76.Ed 77.Pp 78The options are as follows: 79.Bl -tag -width indent 80.It Fl I 81Add the specified directory to the search path for input files. 82.El 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr colcrt 1 , 85.Xr more 1 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Nm 89command appeared in 90.Bx 3.0 . 91.Sh BUGS 92The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \- 93exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name. 94