Documented in Volume 1 of the UNIX Programmers Manual.
% soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -ms | col | pr will include text for embedded .so lines in the files named exum?.n, and pass the resulting expanded nroff script to tbl (then to nroff then to col then to pr. The soelim program is handy because programs such as tbl do not normally expand the text from .so lines.
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