On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:13:40AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > Doesn't it look typographically even better as `\|.\|.\|.\&'.
> > > I think this is what eqn sequence `. . .' gets translated into.
> >
> > In general, this depends on language and style guide.
>
> Indeed. Within groff, James always has used .\|.\|. for situations
> like
>
> 1, 2, ...
>
> (and this is basically the way I want to use ellipses). I want to
> stay with it.
>
>
> Werner
This implies the full space before the ellipsis, right?
.ds eL .\|.\|.
1, 2, \*(eL
instead of what I thought looks less asymmetric
.ds eL \|.\|.\|.
1, 2,\*(eL
I might be quite wrong on this, of course.
Well, we never stop learning.
I guess your judgment in these matters has a "little" more value.
Best regards,
Zvezdan
