NAME
soelim - interpret .so requests in groff input
SYNOPSIS
soelim [
-Crtv ] [
-Idir ] [
files... ]
It is possible to have whitespace between the
-I command line option and
its parameter.
DESCRIPTION
soelim reads
files and replaces lines of the form
- .so file
by the contents of
file. It is useful if files included with
so
need to be preprocessed. Normally,
soelim should be invoked with the
-s option of
groff.
Note that there must be no whitespace between the leading dot and the two
characters `s' and `o'. Otherwise, only
groff interprets the
.so
request (and
soelim ignores it).
OPTIONS
- -C
- Recognize .so even when followed by a character
other than space or newline.
- -Idir
- This option may be used to specify a directory to search
for files (both those on the command line and those named in .so
requests). The current directory is always searched first. This option may
be specified more than once, the directories will be searched in the order
specified. No directory search is performed for files specified using an
absolute path.
- -r
- Do not add .lf requests (for general use, with non-groff
files).
- -t
- Don't emit .lf requests but TeX comment lines (starting
with `%') giving the current file and line number.
- -v
- Print the version number.
USAGE
The normal processing sequence of groff is this:
input sourced
file file
| |
v v
preprocessor -> troff -> postprocessor
|
v
output
file
That is, files sourced with
.so are normally read
only by
troff (the actual formatter).
soelim is
not required for
troff to source files.
If a file to be sourced should also be preprocessed, it must already be read
before the input file passes through the preprocessor. This is handled
by
soelim:
input
file
|
v
soelim -> preprocessor -> troff -> postprocessor
^ |
| v
sourced output
file file
SEE ALSO
groff(1)