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
The directives need to 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 ‘\.', i.e.
́so /usr/lib/tmac.s
A sample usage of
soelim would be
soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -ms | col | lpr
The options are as follows:
-I
Add the specified directory to the search path for input files.