Thank you Ted for that, I hadn't twigged, and it will of some use. The proper use of ellipsis in text is as punctuation, and depending on the font may be subject to kerning. So it's use from a symbol font may not have all the properties. On the other hand apparently .cflags works for symbols from other fonts, eg to declare a sentence terminator.
I've just found that it's in text fonts under \[u2026]\[el] Denis On Thu, 29 May 2014 21:57:19 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> wrote: > On the contrary, it is there! It is in the Symbol font (\fS) > at position 0274[octal] = 188[decimal], but it has no name. > So define > > .char \[el] \f[S]\N'188'\fP > > and then you have it! > > Best wishes too all, > Ted. > (About to follow up with comments on the double up-down arrow). > > On 29-May-2014 19:48:31 Denis M. Wilson wrote: > > Another glyph that is in most text PostScript fonts, is widely used > > in English, but is not in groff, is the ellipsis (three dots). > > > > Denis > > > > On Thu, 29 May 2014 20:13:49 +0200 > > "Bernd Warken" <groff-bernd.warken...@web.de> wrote: > > > >> > Von: "Werner LEMBERG" <w...@gnu.org> > >> > > >> > > The following line is from groff_char.man: > >> > > > >> > > \[vA] \e[vA] uni21D5 u21D5 vertical > >> > > double arrow in both directions > >> > > > >> > > I couldn't find this character \[vA]. Some idea? > >> > > >> > Originally contained in the glyph sets of -Tlj4 and -Tdvi; added > >> > to -Tps later on, using the standard AGL name `uni21D5'. > >> > >> Fine. I seem reasonable to include this and the other 4 characters > >> into groff in general for all devices. How can this be done? > >> > >> Bernd Warken > >> > > > > > > -- > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> > Date: 29-May-2014 Time: 21:57:15 > This message was sent by XFMail > ------------------------------------------------- --
