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Re: [PATCH v2 04/18] doc/bash.1: improve typography of ellipses


From: Martin D Kealey
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/18] doc/bash.1: improve typography of ellipses
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:55:22 +1200

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 07:54, G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> v2: Prevent confclit with PATCH v2 01/18.
> Apply ellipsis advice from groff_man_style(7).
> • The dummy character escape sequence \& follows the ellipsis when further
> text will follow after space on the output line, keeping its last period
> from being interpreted as the end of a sentence and causing additional
> inter‐sentence space to be placed after it.
>

Is there a reason why we're still using a triple period/full-stop “...”
(\u002e) instead of an actual ellipsis “…” (\u2026)?

-Martin


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