man-pages.7: Add some advice about disabling hyphenation in SEE ALSO

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2012-09-25 06:19:44 +02:00
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@ -391,6 +391,17 @@ ordered by section number and
then alphabetically by name, possibly followed by
other related pages or documents.
Do not terminate this with a period.
.IP
Where the SEE ALSO list contains many long manual page names,
to improve the visual result of the output, it may be useful to employ the
.I .ad l
(don't right justify)
and
.I .nh
(dont hyphenate)
directives.
Hyphenation of individual page names can be prevented
by preceding words with the string "\\%".
.SS Font conventions
.PP
For functions, the arguments are always specified using italics,