From cddb3f49be38d2641129ca0d3c55fe063552a5c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:56:00 +0000
Subject: It's unknown whether `SH' and `SS' closing out `nf' literalism is
 portable, so document it in COMPATIBILITY.

---
 man.7 | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'man.7')

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index ef8d1c9f..55885346 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.108 2011/08/30 13:14:01 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.7,v 1.109 2011/09/06 17:56:00 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 30 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 6 2011 $
 .Dt MAN 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -972,6 +972,14 @@ language.
 .Pp
 .Bl -dash -compact
 .It
+Do not depend on
+.Sx \&SH
+or
+.Sx \&SS
+to close out a literal context opened with
+.Sx \&nf .
+This behaviour may not be portable.
+.It
 In quoted literals, GNU troff allowed pair-wise double-quotes to produce
 a standalone double-quote in formatted output.
 It is not known whether this behaviour is exhibited by other formatters.
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