Re: [Groff] more on ellipsis...

[Werner LEMBERG]

> However, there is another use for \[ell2], which is to allow the
> Russian practice of !.. and ?.. as well as the usual end-of-sentence
> ... so there is a point in having \[ell2] anyway; thereafter, users
> have all they options they are likely to need in this business most
> provoking of perverse idiosyncracy!...

I fear that \[ell2] doesn't solve `!..' and `?..' correctly from a
typographical point of view; you have to write `!\|\[ell2]' or
something like this -- it is really shorter to type `!\|.\|.', isn't
it?  To solve this correctly, we have to define \[?..] and \[!..]
anyway.  So I see no point in implementing \[ell2].

[Ideally, typing `?...' and `!...' should be sufficient, for example
 using ligatures:

   ?... -> \[?..]
   !... -> \[!..]
   ...  -> \[...]
   etc.

 Unfortunately, groff doesn't support this (yet).]


    Werner