Elipses

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 3/15/23 13:22, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, dem 14.03.2023 um 23:42 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly
> Heck:
>> Would it be worth adding 'special handling' for "..." the way we do
>> "---"? Are there other things in this ballpark we could handle?
> I do not particularly like these kinds of "autocorrect". It is easy to
> insert an ellipsis via shortcut, isn't it?
>
> The dashes thing comes from LaTeX ligatures tradition.

I think I was on the 'don't do this side' back when we had that 
discussion. But since we do do it, I was thinking about other cases 
where it might be worthwhile.

Actually, I was getting ready to do a presentation to our graduate 
students about LyX ("LaTeX Without Tears") and was thinking about what 
quirks I should point out. The dash thing was one, and elipses, and then 
I thought, "Why this difference?" The history of course I remember.

LibreOffice seems to leverage the auto-correct framework for this 
purpose, which also makes things configurable. I agree with JMarc that 
if we did anything like this, we should do it generally, and not just 
special-case stuff.

So definitely not for 2.4.0, if ever.

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