From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 06:06:26 CDT
> BTW, not to forget the elipsis: Never type three dots, use always one
> character, U+2026. :-)
As I figure it, "Ellipsis" was actually a descriptive name for the
character, not a functional one. It made it's way into unicode via
legacy encodings where it served as a "three dot leader" (note the
grouping with "one dot leader" (2024) and "two dot leader (2025) which
were used for setting "leaders" as in TOCs between titles and page
numbers. The setup was that left and right bearings of the
one/two/three dot leaders would equal the space between the dots in
the two/three dot leader giving an even page, three and two dot
leaders being "abbreviations" when haveing to hand-set long lines.
Actually you should never use U+2026 for a grammatical ellipsis. Use
three periods. And if you are picky, increase tracking. Or commission
your local type designer to implement an OpenType feature to replace
the three-period sequence by your "ellipsis" glyph.
/Szabolcs
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