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Explain that manual page changes belong in docs/man/*.md: edits made only to generated .man files are overwritten at release time. Document the existing Docker/Pandoc generation script and a local preview command. This adds guidance without changing the release process or relocating generated files.

Refs #1389.

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Validation: checked all four Markdown/generated file pairs, the generation call in util/update-version.sh, and the documented script path; bash -n util/generate-docs.sh and git diff --check pass. Documentation only; Cargo checks and man-page regeneration were not run. This is a documentation improvement related to #1389, not a claim to resolve its CI/enforcement discussion.

Manual pages are regenerated from Markdown during releases, so changes made only to generated files are lost. Point contributors to the source files, the existing generation script, and a local preview command.

Refs trifectatechfoundation#1389

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