From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:57:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <200510072121.j97LLI217457@f7.net> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129043255 8352 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2005 15:07:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 17:07:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPLgj-0004FU-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPLgi-0000t2-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPLgM-0000pk-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:04:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPLgL-0000oa-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPLgL-0000oJ-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EPLgH-0003U3-SO; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:04:42 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:57:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:43878 Archived-At: One idea that occurs to me is that you should write `@enddots{.}', with a period in the argument. Using Texinfo 4.8, that looks fine in *info*, but not in DVI as viewed with xpdf. In DVI, there is less space between the last two dots (dots two and three of the ellipsis) than the period and the first dot of the ellipsis and between dots one and two of the ellipsis. (I did not expect this! It looks to me to be a side effect of the \hfil in the @dots{} command from which @enddots{} is derived.) In Texinfo. Without space, but with a period between braces, @@enddots@{.@}, and some more words to push everything over@enddots{.} And then more words. In Info: Without space, but with a period between braces, @enddots{.}, and some more words to push everything over..... And then more words. In DVI (except the width difference is less than shown here): Without space, but with a period between braces, @enddots{.}, and some more words to push everything over. . . .. And then more words. As is, M-e and M-a work successfully both with Texinfo and with Info. Unless the bug with TeX output is fixed, the suggestion cannot be used. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc