>       .so[2-11] /my/source/file with spaces in the name

The idea that the argument of .so might contain unquoted spaces is
anathema--contrary to groff convention and fortunately not supported. I
think the idea of selecting lines from a file is good, but it doesn't
warrant new groff syntax. I would prefer

   .so file firstline lastline

For a one-line inclusion "lastline" might be omitted, but I think that case
is too rare to merit the extra language burden.

Doug

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