On Sunday 19 January 2003 16:19, Hraban wrote:
> Ahoi Hans!
>
> While checking a book after installing the latest beta I recognized
> again that \dots{} does the wrong.
>
> The stops are taken from the *math* font, and that looks very ugly if
> there's no fitting math font for some text where I don't need any
> maths. (My text ist in ITC Berkeley, that has very tiny punctuations;
> CM or TX have rather fat dots.)
> I'd suggest to take the stops simply from the active text font -- or
> use the ellipsis character if the font has one.
>
> On the subject of spacing: The dots are too wide spread; Acrobat
> shows 1000 units, I'd suggest about 750 -- and about 500 before the
> first dot.
>
> Or did I misunderstand the whole thing, that I should use some other
> command for an ellipsis in text mode?
>
> Gr��lis vom Hraban!
I find that the traditional $\ldots$ thingie shows up as just a gray
spot in Acrobat. So I devised this self-evident macro:
\def\lldots{\thinspace.\thinspace.\thinspace.\thinspace}
This one does not gray out, and does not require math mode.
--
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
Rowse Reviews
Culleton Editorial Services
http://wexfordpress.com
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