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?
Grüßlis 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