The right way to produce output #3 is to use @enddots; it was designed
specifically for that case. I presume it does not have that problem
of uneven spacing.
I had forgot about @enddots. Sadly, it is not usable in texinfo 4.8.
@enddots does not work in DVI. Using texi2dvi, the command produces
only three dots on its own. The spacing is wrong if you add a period.
(I have not checked the other usual output formats, HTML, PostScript,
PDF, and plain text. If it fails in one output format, the command
fails Texinfo.)
In DVI, we see:
1. Without space, here is @enddots{}...
2. With space, here is @enddots{} ...
Note that both show only three dots.
When you do put a period in front of the @enddots{} command, the
spacing between the period and the ellipsis is different than the
spacing within the ellipsis.
(Also, the example in texinfo.txi,v 1.128 2004/12/29 15:06:41, which
came with Texinfo 4.8 fails using texi2dvi; it shows only three dots.
The Info output shows four.)
Here is the Texinfo source:
Without space, here is @@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In *info*, this procedure gives us five dots, like this:
Without space, but with a period first, here is @enddots{}.....
(The DVI output shows four dots, with wrong spacing.)
The without-space and no period Info option works, as seen here in *info*:
Without space, no period, here is @enddots{}....
With space, no period, here is @enddots{} ...
The without-space, no-period option is OK for *info*. In Info, it
produced what we hope to see: four dots, equal spacing between them,
no space between the end of the last word and the period. But, as I
said, the command cannot be used in Texinfo, since it fails another
output format.
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Robert J. Chassell
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