[XeTeX] Ellipsis

Tobias Schoel liesdiedatei at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 16 19:55:37 CET 2010


Ok, I thought that the reason might be some "alternative text"-feature 
which was used by one application but not by the other.

Thanks.

bye

Toscho

Am 16.12.2010 19:49, schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd):
>
>
> 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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