man-pages.7: Clarify that SEE ALSO entries may refer to pages from other projects

Reported-by: Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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directives.
Hyphenation of individual page names can be prevented
by preceding words with the string "\\%".
Given the distributed, autonomous nature of FOSS projects
and their documentation, it is sometimes necessary\(emand in many cases
desirable\(emthat the SEE ALSO section includes references to
manual pages provided by other projects.
.SH STYLE GUIDE
The following subsections describe the preferred style for the
.IR man-pages