On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:56 PM Aaron Boxer <boxe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:42 AM The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > >> On 2020-12-23 at 11:25, Aaron Boxer wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > I have some questions about a lintian warning I am getting from my >> package. >> > It complains that the NAME section of the man page can't be parsed. >> > Here is how the section appears in my man page: >> > >> > NAME >> > grk_compress — compresses images to JPEG 2000 format >> > >> > Note: I generate the man page from markdown files via pandoc. >> > >> > How can I get more insight into the problem? >> >> I have no particular relevant expertise, but one thing I notice >> instantly is that that doesn't quite look like a standard hyphen. >> >> Indeed, copying it into a text file and examining it with a hex viewer >> shows that — is apparently 0x8094, whereas - is 0x2d. >> >> It might be worth checking whether that one character is the cause of >> this. >> > Unfortunately, switching to en dash does not fix the problem > > > Thanks! Yes, this is an em dash > > https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/em-dash/ > > troff symbol is > > \[em] > > > >> -- >> The Wanderer >> >> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one >> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all >> progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw >> >>
