Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > > The Gutenberg Project requires 4 dots for an ellipsis at the end
> > > of a sentence.
> > 
> > but isn't that just ASCII for ellipsis + fullstop?

I agree.

> > 
> I'm about to write a macro package for Gutenberg.  I will use three dots
> for the ellipsis char and terminate a sentence with a fullstop after the 
> ellipsis as usual.  That's the easiest way to define the whole thing.
> 
> That's it \[ell].

I disagree.  Don't intermix an ASCII representation of a text with the
output for typesetting!  It *might* be the right solution for a TTY
device to output four dots under some circumstances (but I consider
this ugly), but it is not correct IMHO for anything else.  In most
cases the `markup' for an ellipsis should be done with some
whitespace, using three dots (or even a different representation,
depending on the language).


    Werner