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| From | Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.usage.english |
| Subject | Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter |
| Date | 2015-12-31 18:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <del5ruFdnqfU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <slrnn7takf.13bm.g.kreme@amelia.local> <n5suje$hbi$1@dont-email.me> <n5tqgl$3kr$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> <def9goFsmmoU1@mid.individual.net> <n5ts3s$50g$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> |
On 2015-12-29 11:51:24 +0000, Richard Tobin said:
> In article <def9goFsmmoU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> wrote:
>
>> It was intended to be [ <ellipsis character> ], but I kept the
>> alt-shift keys needed for [ ] pressed for the other characters and
>> got [ <3 bullet points> ]. I noticed, but didn't correct it as I
>> didn't think it would matter. Apparently it did.
>
> It would have had the same problem, as the ellipsis is also not a
> Latin-1 character but is in cp1252.
I don't usually use the ellipsis character (…) in Usenet posts or email
messages, as I know it can be misunderstood by some software, so I type
three full stops (…) instead. I do use the proper character in more
formal writing, however.
Stimulated by your comment I searched and found the package described
at
http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/frankenstein/lips.pdf,
which I didn't previously know of. I agree with the author's criticisms
of the \dots command (in text), but as I didn't know about the lips
package before I've been using do-it-yourself commands:
\DeclareTextCommandDefault{\fourdots}{%
.\hspace*{0.02cm}.\hspace*{0.02cm}.\hspace*{0.02cm}.
}
\DeclareTextCommandDefault{\threedots}{%
.\hspace*{0.02cm}.\hspace*{0.02cm}.\hspace*{-0.01cm}
}
These have the advantage of putting the dots as close to one another as
I want them (closer than the author of the lips package puts them), but
could be seen as a bit clunky.
> The bug is in Tony's software,
> not yours.
>
> -- Richard
--
athel
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Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-26 07:07 +0200
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-12-25 22:36 -0800
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Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-28 22:41 +0100
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 14:25 -0800
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-28 15:17 -0800
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Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-29 08:13 +0100
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2015-12-29 14:49 +1100
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-27 02:38 +0200
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter John Dawkins <artfldodgr@aol.com> - 2015-12-26 12:45 -0800
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-26 12:06 +0000
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-26 20:05 +0200
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2015-12-26 21:22 +0000
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2015-12-27 12:11 +0100
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2015-12-26 05:29 -0800
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Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-26 20:09 +0200
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Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> - 2015-12-28 15:49 -0330
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-29 06:09 +0200
Re: Shirttail cousins -- blogging's bertter RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2015-12-28 22:51 -0700
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