2011/3/21 Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
2011/3/20 Philipp A. <flying-sheep@web.de>
On modern Linux distributions, there is support for the ellipsis (…) on the keyboard layout; The combination is [AltGr+.]

Not all. In openSUSE that is not the case. I made it for myself. I have a file
    /SharedFunctions/Xmodmap.extra
which I use with:
    xmodmap /SharedFunctions/Xmodmap.extra

In this I have now:
    keysym period    = period       greater     ellipsis

That does the trick.

If you are interested in the complete file: I have it attached.

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Cecil Westerhof

oh, i guess you’d like to file a bug request for this. it’s quite useful and has no drawbacks at all.
i think one of the greatest reasons why linux isn’t adapted as desktop os is that you can’t just say sth. like i did and assume it it right for everyone. (missing OEM installs are the biggest reason, though)

but i don’t want to discuss this here ;)
it’s great to have both a reasonable keyboard layout and a text processor which can understand the symbols. i hope one day i’ll get to print my own keyboard with math symbols all over. it would greatly improve the readability of context files when they contain unicode math stuff like \startformula ∫₀³ xⁿφ₁₂(x) \, ⅆx \stopformula