From ba25f45dc5c1be9d4c7c38ebeda38ffc8f081d80 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 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7
index ce9d8578..e9a69a80 100644
--- a/man.7
+++ b/man.7
@@ -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.
-- 
cgit