On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:42 AM The Wanderer <[email protected]> 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. > 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 > >
