Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 19:10:17 EDT

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    Michael,

    > As a typesetter on Mac OS X, I see no reason to abandon the use of
    > the three-dotted horizontal ellipsis character, Ken.

    Nor do I. It is fine for ellipses...

    And it was encoded for that. But in encodings which don't have
    an ellipsis character, it is roughly comparable to a sequence
    of three periods, as above. And for sure you wouldn't want to
    create leader lines by using a sequence of ellipses.

    --Ken

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