From 10616b45fcbec4fa656b1db586c8908b0348e314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:49:35 +0000
Subject: When mentioning a function documented elsewhere, .Xr is often better
 than .Fn. Prodded by guenther@, ok jmc@.

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 mdoc.7 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mdoc.7')

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index 9e4fe6ce..9abd7e94 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1871,6 +1871,9 @@ Examples:
 \&.Fn funcname
 .Ed
 .Pp
+When referring to a function documented in another manual page,
+.Sx \&Xr
+is usually preferable.
 See also
 .Sx MANUAL STRUCTURE
 and
-- 
cgit