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Hehe, when I'm concerned about typography I always write
\ldots, but even if I didn't, my editor would do that for me. Unless I'm in math mode, for in that case I use amsmath's\dotswhich chooses the right dots for the given expression. Well, just to say something\ldots-- # This prints: Just another Perl hacker, seek DATA,15,0 and print q... ; __END__
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Typing proper typographical ellipses (Score:1)
It’s Unicode codepoint U+2026.
In HTML and XML, you can represent it as “…” (or “…” – or “…” for “horizontal ellipsis” but only in HTML).
My .vimrc says “ . will produce a proper ellipsis.
digraphs .. 8230”, so that Ctrl-K .In gtk+/GNOME apps, you can enter any Unicode codepoint by typing it while holding down Ctrl-Shift. (But it should be avoided on use Perl as it is not (yet?) completely