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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