Re: header to register

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2008-01-30 um 16:48 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:

>> isn't this just a bug in lmodern? In any decent font,  
>> \textellipsis in
>> fact gives exactly the output you get from \unknown here. There  
>> may be
>> historical reasons why the glyph looks that way in cm and lm, but it
>> certainly is unexpected compared to other fonts.
>
> Or a bug in mkii:
>
> enco-utf.tex:
> Line 3055 : \def\textellipsis  {…} % HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
>
> enco-def.tex:
> \definecharacter textellipsis {\mathematics\cdots}

At least with Century Schoolbook on MkII \textellipsis is vertically  
shifted (like the colon · ), while \unknown or \dots sits on the  
baseline (…).

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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