[XeTeX] Ellipsis

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Thu Dec 16 19:49:55 CET 2010



Tobias Schoel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if I input an ellipsis via the unicode symbol (…=u2026) or via \dots I
> get in both variants a pdf in which I can select the three dots only as
> a whole. If I copy them to the editor (gedit), I get different results
> depending on whether I copy from acroread or from evince. (I use ubuntu
> 10.10):
>
> acroread: The editor shows an ellipsis.
> evince: The editor shows three normal dots.
>
> Why is that? I would like it, that the symbol is always copy-pasted as
> an ellipsis.

That would seem, in all fairness, to be a question to aim
solely at the authors of Evince, since both the XeTeX and
the Adobe side of things seems to be behaving perfectly.

Philip Taylor


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