Re: [Groff] ellipsis and tty output (buglet)

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 03:46 p.m. 25/06/2003, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > \[u2026] uses the ellipsis in the text font, but:
> >
> > 1. It is not documented in groff_char.7
>
> This is correct.  There has never been a groff glyph name for the
> ellipsis character.
>
> > 2. It should be replaced in tty-char.tmac for ... except for the
> > UTF-8 driver\[u2026] :-)
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure whether I will do this -- there are many Unicode
> characters which could be represented in ASCII: Where shall I stop?
>
> There is an easy solution for your problem.  Put the following into
> your document:
>
>   .schar \[u2026] ...
>
> If neither the current font nor its special fonts have \[u2026]
> defined, use `...' instead.


Hmm.. I missed that one in the manual... It works fine. You are right about 
tty-char.tmac. It already has some weird replacements!