[bug #68261] [man] offer advice on (not) using Courier/monospace/typewritten font in man pages

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #68261 (group groff):

[comment #9 comment #9:]
> Whilst it is only a deprecation and works (by switching to CR as it always 
> has), I'm not too bothered, it is educating the users away from using a
> pseudo 
> font (and the actual warning can be suppressed as you explained). My concern
> 
> was if, at the end of the deprecation, you intended to convert the warning to
> 
> an error, since it would mean that users who decide to tell troff which font
> 
> to use instead of the pseudo (i.e. have heeded the warning by adding:-
> 
> .if t .if \n(.g .ftr C CR
> 
> To a startup file to point troff to a real font) will be miffed.

I've spawned this issue off as bug #68345.  Deri's identified an outright bug,
not a matter of coaching the user in documentation, which is the scope of this
ticket.

Thanks for catching this!


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