At 05:19 PM 1/19/2003 +0100, you 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?
The next version will provide (1) control over the placeholders (2) language dependent placeholders [limittext=whatever you want] so, there you can hook in \textellipses one can turn them on/off, ignore them, etc. Actually there is a nicer mechanism i.e. maxwidth thingies which automatically limits texts (resulting in left, right, or middle cutoffs) and i gave that one configurable placeholders as well [i mostly use this feature and not the \nomarking \nolist thing) I'll provide more details later Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------