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.TH SOELIM 1 "7 February 2022" "groff 1.22.4"
.SH NAME
soelim \- interpret .so requests in groff input
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.SY soelim
.OP \-Crtv
.OP \-I dir
.RI [ file
\&.\|.\|.\&]
.YS
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B soelim
reads
.I files
and replaces lines of the form
.IP
.BI .so\~ file
.LP
by the contents of
.IR file .
.
It is useful if files included with
.B .so
need to be preprocessed.
.
Normally,
.B soelim
should be invoked with the
.B \-s
option of
.BR groff .
.
.
.PP
To embed \[oq]\[rs]\[cq] in the file name, write \[oq]\[rs]\[rs]\[cq]
or \[oq]\[rs]e\[cq].
.
To embed a space, write \[oq]\[rs]\ \[cq].
.
Any other escape sequence in
.I file
makes
.B soelim
ignore the whole line.
.
.
.PP
Note that there must be no whitespace between the leading dot and the two
characters \[oq]s\[cq] and \[oq]o\[cq].
.
Otherwise, only
.B groff
interprets the
.B .so
request (and
.B soelim
ignores it).
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.SH OPTIONS
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Whitespace is permitted between a command-line option and its argument.
.
.
.TP
.B \-C
Recognize
.B .so
even when followed by a character other than space or newline.
.
.TP
.BI \-I dir
This option may be used to add a directory to the search path for
files (both those on the command line and those named in
.B .so
requests).
.
The search path is initialized with the current directory.
.
This option may be specified more than once; the directories are then
searched in the order specified (but before the current directory).
.
If you want to make the current directory be read before other
directories, add
.B \-I.\&
at the appropriate place.
.
.IP
No directory search is performed for files with an absolute file name.
.
.TP
.B \-r
Do not add
.B .lf
requests (for general use, with non-groff files).
.
.TP
.B \-t
Don't emit
.B .lf
requests but TeX comment lines (starting with \[oq]%\[cq]) giving the
current file and line number.
.
.TP
.B \-v
Print the version number.
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.SH USAGE
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The normal processing sequence of groff is this:
.
.
.PP
.ie t \{\
.PS
.ps 10
.vs 12
box invisible width 0.5 height 0.4 "input" "file";
move to last box .bottom;
down;
arrow 0.3;
box invisible width 0.8 height 0.2 "preprocessor";
move to last box .right
right;
arrow 0.3;
A: box invisible width 0.35 height 0.2 "troff";
move to last box .top;
up;
move 0.3;
box invisible width 0.6 height 0.4 "sourced" "file";
line <- up 0.3 from A.top;
move to A.right;
right;
arrow 0.3;
box invisible width 0.85 height 0.2 "postprocessor";
move to last box .bottom;
down;
arrow 0.3;
box invisible width 0.5 height 0.4 "output" "file"
.ps
.vs
.PE
.\}
.el \{\
.nf
          input        sourced
          file          file
            |             |
            v             v
        preprocessor -> troff -> postprocessor
                                      |
                                      v
                                   output
                                    file
.fi
.\}
.PP
.
That is, files sourced with
.B .so
are normally read
.I only
by
.B troff
(the actual formatter).
.
.B soelim
is
.I not
required for
.B troff
to source files.
.
.
.PP
If a file to be sourced should also be preprocessed, it must already be read
.I before
the input file passes through the preprocessor.
.
This is handled by
.BR soelim :
.
.PP
.ie t \{\
.PS
.ps 10
.vs 12
box invisible width 0.5 height 0.4 "input" "file";
move to last box .bottom;
down;
arrow 0.3;
A: box invisible width 0.5 height 0.2 "soelim";
line <- 0.3;
box invisible width 0.5 height 0.4 "sourced" "file";
move to A.right;
right;
arrow 0.3;
box invisible width 0.8 height 0.2 "preprocessor";
arrow 0.3;
box invisible width 0.35 height 0.2 "troff";
arrow 0.3
box invisible width 0.85 height 0.2 "postprocessor";
move to last box .bottom;
down;
arrow 0.3;
box invisible width 0.5 height 0.4 "output" "file"
.ps
.vs
.PE
.\}
.el \{\
.nf
          input
          file
            |
            v
          soelim -> preprocessor -> troff -> postprocessor
            ^                                     |
            |                                     v
         sourced                               output
          file                                  file
.fi
.\}
.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR groff (1)
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