Am 2008-01-30 um 16:48 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:
isn't this just a bug in lmodern? In any decent font, \textellipsis in fact gives exactly the output you get from \unknown here. There may be historical reasons why the glyph looks that way in cm and lm, but it certainly is unexpected compared to other fonts.
Or a bug in mkii:
enco-utf.tex: Line 3055 : \def\textellipsis {…} % HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
enco-def.tex: \definecharacter textellipsis {\mathematics\cdots}
At least with Century Schoolbook on MkII \textellipsis is vertically shifted (like the colon · ), while \unknown or \dots sits on the baseline (…). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)