+static void
+check_text_em(struct roff_man *mdoc, int ln, int pos, char *p)
+{
+ const struct roff_node *np, *nn;
+ char *cp;
+
+ np = mdoc->last->prev;
+ nn = mdoc->last->next;
+
+ /* Look for em-dashes wrongly encoded as "--". */
+
+ for (cp = p; *cp != '\0'; cp++) {
+ if (cp[0] != '-' || cp[1] != '-')
+ continue;
+ cp++;
+
+ /* Skip input sequences of more than two '-'. */
+
+ if (cp[1] == '-') {
+ while (cp[1] == '-')
+ cp++;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Skip "--" directly attached to something else. */
+
+ if ((cp - p > 1 && cp[-2] != ' ') ||
+ (cp[1] != '\0' && cp[1] != ' '))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Require a letter right before or right afterwards. */
+
+ if ((cp - p > 2 ?
+ isalpha((unsigned char)cp[-3]) :
+ np != NULL &&
+ np->type == ROFFT_TEXT &&
+ *np->string != '\0' &&
+ isalpha((unsigned char)np->string[
+ strlen(np->string) - 1])) ||
+ (cp[1] != '\0' && cp[2] != '\0' ?
+ isalpha((unsigned char)cp[2]) :
+ nn != NULL &&
+ nn->type == ROFFT_TEXT &&
+ isalpha((unsigned char)*nn->string))) {
+ mandoc_msg(MANDOCERR_DASHDASH, mdoc->parse,
+ ln, pos + (int)(cp - p) - 1, NULL);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+}
+