Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Branden,

>     22  .  if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
>     23  .    char - \[hy]
>     24  .
>
> Also, the linitan(1) tool that is a huge part of Debian package QA
> checks man pages for many problems, and I think this is one of them.

I had a look at https://lintian.debian.org/tags-all.html, searching for
`manpage', but didn't spot it?  Lintian does look very useful though.  I
had a browse of a few packages, and some of groff's faults are still in
git.
https://lintian.debian.org/full/address@hidden
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/contrib/hdtbl/groff_hdtbl.7.man#n1251

> Debian _is_ trying to bring about the day when that bodge can be
> reversed.

Sounds good.

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