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
troff symbol is
\[em]
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