On 11/10/20 8:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
LyX translates an ellipsis (entered with Alt + . or via the Insert menu)
to \ldots. (Note the final s -- not sure if your "\ldot" was a typo or
whether you are not remembering the command correctly.) AFAIK, \ldots is
defined in the LaTeX kernel and does not require loading a package. The
same is true of \textellipsis.
Paul,
Interesting. Yes, \ldot was a typo as an ellipsis has three dots.
I didn't use the menu or Alt-.; I automatically open an ERT box (and
still
strongly dislike that name) and type the command. But \textellipsis,
\ldots,
and \ellipsis all produced the same compilation error, built-in or as a
loaded module.
Just now I killed the ERT box and used alt-. which displayed the ellipsis
and was accepted by pdflatex.
This leads to my suggestion that the next release of LyX accept the ERT
commands as well as the keyboard chord and the menu item. Some older
foggies
like me are touch-typists and still enter LaTeX commands directly.
Doesn't
seem to me that allowing these would take anything away.
Thanks for the solution,
Rich
Rich,
When I type \ldots or \textellipsis in an ERT box and compile with
pdlatex, it works fine (without my adding anything to the preamble). So
this is not a LyX issue. Have you offended any gremlins recently?
Perhaps you could post a MWE that generates error messages.
Paul
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